Ozone Story: NASA images of Enviro Action That Worked


	Ozone Story: NASA images of Enviro Action That Worked

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3-26-2009 2:11 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cc76c0ae-11a7-4f43-9cd8-e7edfbc80454/5CAB37B8-241C-4191-9142-EDFF6D93B9ED/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/20/ozone-success-story-nasa-video-of-enviro-action-that-worked/" href="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/20/ozone-success-story-nasa-video-of-enviro-action-that-worked/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.universetoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/20/ozone-success-story-nasa-video-of-enviro-action-that-worked/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.universetoday.com/img/EEA7FDDC-B3AC-44CC-BF51-F911991F556D" alt="ozone-hole1" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/20/ozone-success-story-nasa-video-of-enviro-action-that-worked/">Imagine the year 2065. Two-thirds of <A rel="external" title="" class="alinks_links" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/earth/">Earth</A>'s ozone is gone.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/20/ozone-success-story-nasa-video-of-enviro-action-that-worked/">People living in mid-latitude cities like Washington, D.C., get sunburned after five minutes. DNA-mutating UV radiation is up 650 percent</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/20/ozone-success-story-nasa-video-of-enviro-action-that-worked/"><DIV class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_27572"><P class="wp-caption-text">Avoided" model shows the concentration of ozone over the South Pole at four key times. Reds represent normal to high concentrations; blues show depleted areas. Credit: NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio</P></DIV>
<P>Ozone is Earth's natural sunscreen, absorbing and blocking most of the incoming UV radiation from <A rel="external" title="" class="alinks_links" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/the-sun/">the sun</A> and protecting life from DNA-damaging radiation</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/20/ozone-success-story-nasa-video-of-enviro-action-that-worked/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.universetoday.com/img/A53FA1A4-74B6-4387-A69B-7E7ED0219210" alt="ozone-simulation" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/20/ozone-success-story-nasa-video-of-enviro-action-that-worked/">This time series from the ozone "World Avoided" model shows the concentration of ozone over the South Pole at four key times. Reds represent normal to high concentrations; blues show depleted areas</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/20/ozone-success-story-nasa-video-of-enviro-action-that-worked/">By the simulated year 2020, 17 percent of all ozone is depleted globally</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/03/20/ozone-success-story-nasa-video-of-enviro-action-that-worked/">By the end of the model run in 2065, global ozone drops 67 percent compared to 1970s levels.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5CAB37B8-241C-4191-9142-EDFF6D93B9ED/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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