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Article: Understanding global warming: don't confuse global warming with atmospheric ozone depletion. (Wheeler on HVACR).(Brief Article)
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- Supply House Times
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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It's hard to talk to people without someone bringing up environmental pollution, global warming and destruction of the earth's protective ozone layer.
Global warming has little or nothing to do with atmospheric ozone depletion. But since both ideas were heavily suggested during the same decade (1970s-1980s), most people think that global warming is caused by ozone depletion. It isn't. Here's why:
Ozone depletion is the reported thinning of the layer of stratospheric ozone that protects the earth from hard ultraviolet radiation which comes from the sun. The risk there has to do with killing sensitive life forms and causing high rates of skin cancer among ...