Ozone depletion

Both of the given reading assignments written in joint efforts with a myriad of researchers and our upcoming speaker Dr. Kessler took an in depth look at the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill. The first report published in Science magazine focused on the effect of the methane (CH4) release. In contrast to the earlier published article the second, published in Environmental Science magazine amassed data on the spread of the CH4 plumes. While in ordinary conditions CH4 in the ocean is no cause for alarm…

Chemtrails Are Real Have you ever wondered what those white, cloudy-like lines that come off planes and jets are? Or what is in those lines? Contrails are indeed the lines that follow behind aircraft, but there are chemicals in them. Because there are chemicals in the lines, we called them chemtrails. Chemtrails are, in fact, real. Contrails are not harmful to humans. Contrails are said to be naturally made in the air by the exhaust freezing at the high altitudes that planes travel in. The…

On the night of July 1, 2015 in the east Tennessee town of Maryville (Blount County) a CSX train carrying a toxic/flammable material, derailed and caught fire which resulted in the evacuation of many residents within a two mile radius of the accident scene. The train was traveling from Cincinnati, Ohio to Waycross, Georgia when it derailed. Around 5,000 residents were evacuated including nearby businesses. The ruptured tanker car was carrying 24,000 gallons of acrylonitrile which is a colorless,…

The Graniteville train crash is one of the most deadly train crashes to occur since the 1970’s. On the evening of January 5th, 2005 a 12-car Norfolk Southern freight train P22 pulled into Avondale Mills textile plant. While doing this, the crew onboard hurriedly had to open a switch to allow their train to get onto a siding before the end of the hour, which they were required to stop working by law. However, the crew of train P22 as it was later found, did not return the switch to its original…

Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway: Summary Chapter 4: Constructing a Counternarrative: The Fight over the Ozone Hole The idea that human activities were damaging the Earth’s protective ozone layer entered the public’s mind in 1970. Supersonic Transport would fly inside the stratospheric ozone layer and that worried scientist because they thought the emission would do damage. The MIT commissioned a major study and released a statement to the state of the stratosphere and the…

Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer 1. Introduction to the international agreement The Montreal Protocol came into effect as a result of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer. The Convention founded ozone depletion as highly global environmental problem that required international consensus on regulating the use of CFC’s. Two years later, on September 16th 1987, the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer was signed by 24 countries and…

Sun isn't all righteous due to various factors that contribute to the Sun being damaging to organisms on Earth. To understand more about why the Sun can be harmful one must grasp the basics of what the sun is composed of, ultraviolet rays, and ozone depletion needs to be understood. Our Sun is the central part of our solar system; if the sun didn't exist several things wouldn't occur: the process of photosynthesis would not take place, oxygen cannot be created, thus, life cannot be present. The…

plants and wildlife all around us dying, the ozone hole is dangerous and the threat is real. The hole in the ozone layer has the potential to cause mass damage to the Earth. The Antarctic region is devastated due to the exposure to ultraviolet light and the climate across the world has begun to shift. Due to the harmful impact humans have has on the environment, this even could cause a major catastrophe for the earth and its inhabitants. The ozone is a layer of gas in the atmosphere that…

plans to curb their carbon emissions and other countries are also taking this climate change more seriously, as well as the United States. Then Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state George Shultz said how Reagan urged industry to proactively address ozone depletion and he believes people should be proactive in dealing with climate change. There is no improvement to the climate change because the government is in control of the situation and we are not the one destroy our economy. Shultz also said…

damages. The environment is a necessity for human survival, as it provides all of our resources, and maintaining it is the key to improving human life on the planet. Without this, we see more of what has already began to happen: global warming, ozone layer depletion, acid rain, loss of biodiversity by deforestation and desertification and water pollution. As these problems increase, so does the cost that the country is paying to fix them. It is an ongoing cycle, as no permanent solution besides…