The Arctic Ozone Layer Hole and its recent consequences
The Earth’s ocean is one of the purifiers of the atmospheric air. The waters of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antactica are a major sink for carbon emissions cleaning up more than 40% of the overall oceanic uptake of green house gases. However, the ozone layer hole above these are is singnificantly and constantly growing larger and recently scientists at a pressconference in Paris have discussed a quite negaive sceinario.
According to some of the biochemists at the conference, the ozone layer hole is a main reason why the ocean puts down less and less carbon emissions. Due to the ozone layer hole and the increased green house gases presence in the atmosphere, the ocean gets acts as a storage space for some of these acids. The reason is because the gases are usually of organic nature -methane, ethane and others that contain high amount of hydrogen and carbon. These interact easily with the ocean water because it contains quite a lot of organic substances as well as non-organic sodiums which form acids when interact with the organic substances forming strong or weak acids. Acids cannot accurately interfere with the atmosphere because of the density of the air -because of that reason the oceans can absorve less and less carbon emissions each year giving the mankind a warning that such anti-envrinmental conduct that is being held by the industry sectors might inevitably harm even the natural purifiers of the air.
The article is quite disturbing -the oceans as well as the green mass on the planet are the natural elements that still fight the green house effect. By destroying the equatorial forests and by polluting more and more the air, the purifiers would not interact with the air efficiently thus contributing to the increase in the environmental pollution and the carbon release in the atmosphere.
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