Scientists Reveal What Would Happen if The Ozone Layer Vanished

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Scientists Reveal What Would Happen if The Ozone Layer Vanished
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The evolution of Earth's climate contains many components.

stabilizing and settingIn the simplest picture we receive radiation from the Sun. Some of that radiation bounces off of our upper atmosphere while the rest travels downward. Some of that radiation is absorbed by the air and the ground.

We have not always had an ozone layer. Before the emergence of life, ozone was essentially non-existent in our atmosphere. And the Earth spent billions of years with only a minimal ozone layer. They found that the presence of ozone has a warming effect on our surface temperatures, on average increasing the surface temperature of the Earth by about 3.5 Kelvin. If the ozone layer were to disappear, whether throughThe primary effect of a lack of ozone would be a cooling of the upper stratosphere. Cooler air cannot hold on to as much moisture, and so the stratosphere would become drier.

Beyond the changes to the Earth's temperature, the lack of ozone would have significant impacts on our overall climate.

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