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Book Scientific Assessment of Stratospheric Ozone

Download or read book Scientific Assessment of Stratospheric Ozone written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Twenty Questions and Answers about the Ozone Layer

Download or read book Twenty Questions and Answers about the Ozone Layer written by Michaela I. Hegglin and published by . This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Synthesis of the Reports of the Scientific  Environmental Effects  and Technology and Economic Assessment Panels of the Montreal Protocol

Download or read book Synthesis of the Reports of the Scientific Environmental Effects and Technology and Economic Assessment Panels of the Montreal Protocol written by Daniel Lee Albritton and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 1999 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scientific Assessment of Stratospheric Ozone  1989

Download or read book Scientific Assessment of Stratospheric Ozone 1989 written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Review of the U S  Climate Change Science Program s Draft Synthesis and Assessment Product 2 4

Download or read book Review of the U S Climate Change Science Program s Draft Synthesis and Assessment Product 2 4 written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program is in the process of producing 21 draft assessments that investigate changes in the Earth's climate and related systems. These assessments are designed to inform decisionmakers about the scientific underpinnings of a range of environmental issues, such as stratospheric ozone. This National Research Council report reviews one of these assessments, Synthesis and Assessment Product (SAP) 2.4, Trends in Emissions of Ozone Depletion Substances, Ozone Layer Recovery, and Implications for Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure. This assessment is noted as being the first-ever attempt to look at the United States contribution to ozone-depleting substances and ozone recovery. This National Research Council book commends the assessment's authoring team for comprehensively covering the scientific basis of ozone and ozone-depleting substances, but recommends several ways that the assessment could be improved. Suggestions include clarifying the discussion on climate effects of ozone and revising the approach to estimating U.S. contributions to production, consumption, and emission of ozone-depleting substances. The assessment could also be improved by reorganizing and editing to accommodate intended audiences.

Book Discerning Experts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Oppenheimer
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2019-03-07
  • ISBN : 022660215X
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Discerning Experts written by Michael Oppenheimer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study of environmental assessment “provides an essential examination of the factors that shape and dictate our climate policy” (Choice). Discerning Experts reexamines the assessments that many governments rely on to help guide environmental policy and action. Through their close look at reports involving acid rain, ozone depletion, and sea level rise, the authors explore how experts deliberate and decide on the scientific facts about problems like climate change. They also seek to understand how the scientists involved make the judgments they do, how the organization and management of assessment activities affects those judgments, and how expertise is identified and constructed. Discerning Experts uncovers factors that can generate systematic bias and error, and recommends how the process can be improved. As the first study of the internal workings of large environmental assessments, this book reveals their strengths and weaknesses, and explains what assessments can—and cannot—be expected to contribute to public policy and the common good.

Book Twenty Years of Ozone Decline

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christos Zerefos
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2009-05-24
  • ISBN : 9048124697
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book Twenty Years of Ozone Decline written by Christos Zerefos and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-05-24 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homer speaks of lightning bolts after which ‘a grim reek of sulphur bursts forth’ and the air was ‘?lled with reeking brimstone’. (Homer 3000 BC). The odour was not actually the smell of sulphur dioxide associated with burning sulphur, but rather was the ?rst recorded detection of the presence of another strong odour, that of ozone (O ) in Earth’s atmosphere. These molecules were formed by the passage of 3 lightning through the air, created by splitting the abundant molecular oxygen (O ) 2 molecules into two, followed by the addition of each of the free O atoms to another O to form the triatomic product. In fact, most of the ozone molecules present 2 in the atmosphere at any time have been made by this same two-step splitti- plus-combination process, although the initiating cause usually begins with very energetic solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation rather than lightning. Many thousands of years later, the modern history of ozone began with its synthesis in the laboratory of H. F. Schonbein in 1840 (Nolte 1999), although the positive con?rmation of its three-oxygen atom chemical formula came along sometime later. Scienti?c interest in high-altitude stratospheric ozone dates back to 1881 when Hartley measured the spectrum of ozone in the laboratory and found that its ability to absorb UV light extended only to 293nm at the long wavelength end (Hartley 1881a).

Book Scientific Assessment of Stratospheric Ozone  executive Summary

Download or read book Scientific Assessment of Stratospheric Ozone executive Summary written by United Nations Environment Programme and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Analysis of Global Change Assessments

Download or read book Analysis of Global Change Assessments written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-09-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global change assessments inform decision makers about the scientific underpinnings of a range of environmental issues, such as climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, and loss of biodiversity. Dozens of assessments have been conducted to date by various U.S. and international groups, many of them influencing public policies, technology development, and research directions. This report analyzes strengths and weaknesses of eight past assessments to inform future efforts. Common elements of effective assessments include strong leadership, extensive engagement with interested and affected parties, a transparent science-policy interface, and well defined communication strategies. The report identifies 11 essential elements of effective assessments and recommends that future assessments include decision support tools that make use of information at the regional and local level where decisions are made.

Book Safeguarding the Ozone Layer and the Global Climate System

Download or read book Safeguarding the Ozone Layer and the Global Climate System written by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific evidence linking chlorofluorocarbons and other ozone-depleting substances to global ozone depletion led to the initial control of chemicals under the 1987 Montreal Protocol. Since then it has been realized that some actions taken to reduce future depletion of the ozone layer could also influence global warming. When the Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in 1997, countries had new incentives to take account of how choices among substitutes could affect the objectives of both Protocols. This report provides the scientific context required for consideration of these choices; potential methodologies for assessing options; and technical issues relating to greenhouse gas emission reduction opportunities for each of the sectors involved, including refrigeration, air conditioning, foams, aerosols, fire protection and solvents. This IPCC/TEAP Special Report provides invaluable information for researchers in environmental science, climatology, and atmospheric chemistry, policy-makers in governments and environmental organizations, and scientists and engineers in industry.

Book Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion  2002

Download or read book Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion 2002 written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Protecting the Ozone Layer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward A. Parson
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2003-03-06
  • ISBN : 0198035438
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Protecting the Ozone Layer written by Edward A. Parson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-06 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive history of international efforts to protect the ozone layer, the greatest success yet achieved in managing human impacts on the global environment. Its arguments about how this success was achieved are both theoretically novel and of great significance for the management of other global problems, particularly global climate change. The book provides an account of the ozone-depletion issues from the first attempts to develop international action in the 1970s to the mature functioning of the present international regime. It examines the parallel developments of politics and negotiations, scientific understanding and controversy, technological progress, and industry strategy that shaped the issue's development and its effective management. In addition, the book offers important new insights into how the interactions among these domains influenced the formation and adaptation of the ozone regime. Addressing the initial formation of the regime, the book argues that authoritative scientific assessments were crucial in constraining policy debates and shaping negotiated agreements. Assessments gave scientific claims an ability to change policy actors' behavior that the claims themselves, however well known and verified, lacked. Concerning subsequent adaptation of the regime, the book identifies a series of feedbacks between the periodic revision of chemical controls and the strategic responses of affected industries, which drove rapid application of new approaches to reduce ozone-depleting chemicals. These feedbacks, promoted by the regime's novel technology assessment process, allowed worldwide use of the chemicals to decline further and faster than even the boldest predictions, by nearly 95 percent within ten years.

Book Twenty Questions and Answers about the Ozone Layer

Download or read book Twenty Questions and Answers about the Ozone Layer written by David W. Fahey and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book SCIENTIFIC assessment of stratospheric ozone

Download or read book SCIENTIFIC assessment of stratospheric ozone written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Action on Ozone

    Book Details:
  • Author : Naomi Poulton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Action on Ozone written by Naomi Poulton and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document summurizes the impact of different events that causes ozone layer depletion. Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol are also explained as well as the engagement of member countries.