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Ozone and Global Warming
Globalism was one of the predominant changes made in the late 20th century. It combines economics, politics, and cultural movements that through the increased use of technology move the world closer together. If, in the modern world, actions are tied together, globalism should work because it delineates cause and effect in every area of the world. For instance, globalism has increased manufacturing and trade. Because of this, more pollutants are being placed into the atmosphere causing a number of controversial theories.
Global warming is the idea that there has been a gradual increase in earth's median temperature for surface air and oceans, based on the increase in greenhouse cases produced globally. Temperature variations have a dramatic effect on the globe due to the...
Extreme weather patterns (e.g. dramatic changes in rainfall, freezing temperatures, storm systems, heat waves, etc.), cause possible aggravated melting of the polar glaciers causing a rise in ocean levels, disruption of global agriculture, and adverse health effects resulting from unplanned temperature changes.
Ozone is a naturally occurring gas in Earth's atmosphere. The large portion of this is concentrated in the ozone layer, several miles above the earth. This ozone layer shields the earth from harmful ultraviolet light from the sun. Too much ultraviolet light, and most of the organisms populating the earth would die. The ozone hole is an annual event that thins the ozone layer over the Antarctic continent. This tends to focus on the lower stratosphere in the atmosphere, and occurs in Spring and Early Summer. Most believe the cause of the ozone hole is the concentration of Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) compounds that break down because of an increased exposure to ultraviolet light. This in turn causes more free radicals that contain chlorine to exist high in the earth's atmosphere, which then breaks down ozone.
Ozone is also one of the greenhouse…
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There are, however, a number of types of caves that are formed through different processes (even volcanic action). A new theory says that some caves (about 5%) are caused through the action of sulfuric acid produced by microbial life. In this theory, microbes consume materials, oils, etc. And release hydrogen sulfide gas, which then in turn rises through rocks and combines with groundwater to produce sulfuric acid, which then
Winds had been blowing from the south and southeast all day, but at 22:00 the wind had shifted to the northeast and had dropped to 9km/hr, accompanied by a drop in temperature and pressure and a rise in relative humidity. Wednesday, November 23rd Weather stayed relatively stable throughout the day on Wednesday, with temperatures ranging only from five to seven degrees Celsius throughout the day. Cloud cover was complete and consisted
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