effect of the depletion of ozone layer to us?
952708
The ozone layer acts like a sunscreen for the earth. It screens out much of the harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun. When the ozone layer is depleted or has holes in it, these rays reach the earth's surface causing real problems for plants and animals (including us) which have evolved to cope with much less ultraviolet.
946676
I think the changes in the environment have drastically effected our weather.\nSome weather changes are normal and expected.It s the earths way of renewing itself.However, I believe these changes are most drastic because of the depletion of the zone layer.,pollution and global warming.
1008998
At the north and south pole, the atmosphere is thinner than anywhere else on earth, because the air is pulled away from there. Ozone is in the same percentage all around the earth  so it is natural that there is less at the poles. Chemicals are a main cause of the depletion of the ozone layer.This is why the 'gap' in the ozone is thinner at Antarctica than in the populated region of the northern hemisphere. Visit the web site in the link
10249
actually, this is one problem that has actually been helped by government.\n\nan international agreement known as the montreal protocol signed in 1988 has restricted the use of ozone depleting chemicals like chlorofluorocarbons, methyl chloroform, methyl bromide and the like.  atmospheric monitoring has shown that the levels of these chemicals in the atmosphere has started to turn over and decline.\n\naccording to the NOAA report on ozone depletion published in 2002, "Chemistry-climate models predict that springtime Antarctic ozone levels will be increasing by 2010 because of projected decreases of halogens in the stratosphere.  A return to pre-1980 total column ozone amounts in the Antarctic is expected by the middle of this century."\n\nso, in other words, we only have to keep doing the right thing and not using the chemicals which we know deplete the ozone, and the earth will heal itself by 2050.  cool eh!
440901
Of course its bad... I mean it harms our lungs and it has carbon monoxide which can kill us by taking oxygen.\n\nAir pollution also causes Acid Rain and it harms the Ozone Layer. So with Air Pollution our lovely Earth's being destroyed.
782745
"Are we destroying the earth with technology or is the earth doing business as usual"\nI suggest you track the changes scientists have found in the entire history of the earth, warming, freezing, wet and even effects of smoke from Krakatoa. Then compare what is happening now with pollution and the depletion of the ozone layer and ask the readers to make their own conclusion.
862529
Ozone layer had undergone massive depletion due to natural and man-made causes. It had areas greatly decreased that made it to the point that there is already a "hole" or there is a certain area that no longer contain the ozone layer.\n\nThere are various factors  influencing  the ozone concentrations: >>Stratospheric sulfate aerosols mainly from  large explosive volcanoes greatly affect the ozone layers.\n>>Stratospheric winds  which bring about changes of the tropical winds in the lower stratosphere move ozone from one area to another.\n>>Greenhouse gases which might heat the planet and alter weather patterns affecting  the magnitude of the stratospheric winds.\n>>Sunspot cycle which is largely affected by unusual solar activity, solar storms and large solar flares which highly affect the ozone creation by solar UV radiation.\n>>Stratospheric chlorine, coming mostly from man-made halocarbons.\n\nWith all factors affecting the ozone creation, and movements and all that supports its depletion, ozone layer had lowered its  amount or its concentration which can cause the risk of harmful ultraviolet exposures. In simple term, the ozone layer had undergone thinning of its layer which some area already resulted to have holes. Anything that had thinned severely can breakdown anytime - that also applies to the ozone layer.♥
192873
Dont listen to teh idiot above, how could cutting down trees help improve the ozone layer???\n\nThe answer is A because trees convert CO2 to O2, the more trees you cut down the less trees you have to make 02 from CO2 so there will be an increase in CO2
755743
I do not get Popular Science, but I have heard proposals to put a sunshade in space to reduce the solar energy reaching Earth and so solve the global warming problem. This would definitely work, but I think it is too soon to proceed. What if we cool the Earth too much? Who would be to blame? If NASA put up the shade and Finland or some other country had a bad winter, would the US have to pay damages? It would be a political nightmare. With great power comes great responsibility. If we can really control the weather, then if somebody doesn't like the weather is our fault. Do we want to take that responsibility? Yes we do if massive bad stuff has already happened that can be 100% blamed on global warming, but when was the last time the world agreed 100% on anything? Even if sea levels rise 100 feet and we put the shade in place, somebody in the world would sue us anyway, but if we put it up now, before sea levels rise at all, EVERYBODY will sue us!
1015823
In America, we've stabalized the polution.  The problem is that we can only control our own nation.  We can't stop nations like China and Mexico from polluting.\n\nThe other thing to look at is history.  The earth goes through natural warm and cool stages (you have the ice ages, then you have periods of warm weather, then you go back to the ice ages).  We are in a warm period now, and eventually (probably within 5,000 years) will go back to another ice age.
1028057
global warming and ozone depletion is related. read this....\n\nGlobal Warming Can Increase Ozone Depletion\nScientist's are concerned that continued global warming will accelerate ozone destruction and increase stratospheric ozone depletion. Ozone depletion gets  worse when the stratosphere (where the ozone layer is), becomes colder.  Because global warming traps heat in the troposphere, less heat reaches the stratosphere which will make it colder.  Greenhouse gases act  like a blanket for the troposphere and make the stratosphere colder. In other words, global warming can make ozone depletion much worse right when it is supposed to begin its recovery during the next century.\n\ncheck the following link...it might help you!
236055
The southern hemisphere has the biggest problem with ozone depletion because winter temperatures in the stratosphere create a global vortex that traps elemental chlorine over Antarctica, leading to a seasonal depletion and rebuilding of molecular ozone over the same area - The ozone hole is seasonal, not constant, and observations show it is recovering from its lowest recorded ozone levels. During southern hemisphere winters, the thinned ozone areas surrounding the lower latitudes can cause South America, Australia, New Zealand, and other land areas in those higher southern latitudes to experience excess solar UVA and UVB incidence.
168302
Because they deplete the ozone layer.
262700
Global warming,green house effects,thinning layer of the ozone
532115
ozone is one of the gases in our atmosphere.\n\nit protects us from some of the more poisonous rays of the sun - radiation that is very harmful to life on earth.\n\nOzone is exactly half of Oxygen, meaning oxygen always has two atoms stuck together, ozone only has one.\n\nIf the ozone layer goes, we will all die of cancer faster than you can imagine, among other gross diseases and starvation (coz food won't grow with all that poisonous radiation).\n\nIn australia, more ppl get skin cancer than anywhere else, because there is a huge hole in the ozone layer right on top of australia.\n\nDo you know that smell that comes when lightning strikes right before a delicious thunderstorm?? There is this yummy smell in the air - that's ozone you're smelling. The lightning (electricity basically) splits the oxygen molecules in the air - this is ozone.
394896
Ozone spontaneously decomposes.  If we filled all the holes, the ozone would turn to oxygen in a matter of minutes and the holes would be back.  "Holes in the ozone layer" are a myth propogated by those who would like to reverse the industrial revolution, but who would still insist on driving their BMW's.
564994
Not the easiest thing in the world to get to O3 from H20...\n\nPlus large ice balls in our atmosphere have an unpleasent history of killing things...