In environmental science the green house effect is a common term for the role water vapor; carbon dioxide and ozone play in keeping the earth's surface warmer than it would normally be. The atmosphere is primarily transparent to infrared radiation from the sun, which is mostly absorbed by the earth's surface. The earth being much cooler than the sun, remits radiation most strongly at infrared wavelengths. Water vapor, carbon dioxide and ozone then absorb much …
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…dangerous chemicals, such as CFC, found in arisol cans, we could ultimatly destroy the ozone layer. If we destroy the ozone layer then we are really killling ourselves. If the ozone layer is destroyed then powerful ultriviolent rays will penitrate the earth and everyone would get skin cancer and eventually die. I hope organizations will continue to work to prevent the distruction of ozone because I would like to see man survive for a while.