Hole in the Sky : Man's Threat to the Ozone Layer

Cover......Page 1
About the Author......Page 2
Details......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
CHAPTER ONE Oxygen, ozone and life......Page 12
The ozone layer today......Page 15
Oxygen and life......Page 20
Cancer, crops and cattle......Page 24
CHAPTER TWO A supersonic red herring?......Page 29
Flying into trouble......Page 30
Shuttling chlorine into the stratosphere......Page 34
CHAPTER THREE The spray-can war......Page 40
Lovelock's mistake......Page 41
Rowland raises the problem......Page 44
The bandwagon rolls......Page 49
Coming up to date......Page 53
CHAPTER FOUR Ozone eaters and the biosphere......Page 59
Cycles of life......Page 60
Laughing gas is not so funny......Page 64
Dinosaurs and doomsday scenarios......Page 66
Little things may mean a lot......Page 70
CHAPTER FIVE Greenhouse gases......Page 76
The carbon dioxide greenhouse effect......Page 79
Other greenhouse gases......Page 81
The long-term perspective......Page 84
Living in a warmer world......Page 85
Influences on ozone......Page 90
CHAPTER SIX The hole over Antarctica......Page 93
The hole appears......Page 94
Chemical connections......Page 97
A process of elimination......Page 101
South from Punta Arenas......Page 105
The Dahlem debate......Page 110
Dilution dynamics......Page 120
Worldwide depletion......Page 121
A northern hole?......Page 123
A scary scenario......Page 126
Balance points......Page 129
Goodbye to Gaia?......Page 131
CHAPTER EIGHT Strategies for action......Page 135
The Montreal muddle......Page 137
CFCs today......Page 141
Local tactics......Page 145
Tomorrow is too late......Page 148
Further reading......Page 150
Index......Page 152
Back Cover......Page 161