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Ozone Destruction New Cause
2013-01-15 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Large amounts of ozone around 50% more than predicted by the worlds state-of-the-art climate models are being destroyed in the lower atmosphere over the tropical Atlantic Ocean. A team of scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Science and the Universities of York and Leeds made the discovery, which is significant because ozone in the lower atmosphere acts as a greenhouse gas and its destruction also leads to the removal of the third most abundant greenhouse gas; methane. Ozone,...
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