A Place of Forgotten Voices

Ozone Depletion

Wow, Mr. Chapin has really taught me alot. Like, for example, I learned that the real reason for Ozone Depletion is because we used to be constantly releasing chlorofluorocarnbons(CFC) into the air. This was first discovered in 1954, or 1956, I can’t remember.

Anyway, the CFC molecules are really bad for the ozone layer. They break up the ozone molecules, and turn them into groups of two, when they were originally groups of three and four. Also, the Ozone is actually smog. You know, the pollution that you find in L.A.? That kind of smog makes up the Ozone layer. Its really unhealthy for our lungs, but it protects us from things like Ultra Violet rays(UV rays).

In fact, in Australia, and New Zealand, and Antarctic the Ozone layer is so thin, the skin cancer rate is twenty times worse than it is in the US. Can you believe that? Twenty time!! That’s alot incase, you didn’t know. In fact, that’s a TON! People can’t leave their houses for more than fifteen minutes before they’re starting to get sunburn. can you imagine how horrid it’d be after half an hour?

Alright. You’re probably wondering where CFC comes from about now. Well, I’ll be honest. I don’t know where it comes from, but I DO know where you can find it. Inside of a refrigerator, and an air conditioner, there are these tubes filled with CFC. Now, back in the day, before you were born most likely (between the founding of refrigerators and 1954/56) they used to crush refrigerators and air conditioners without a care. THey didn’t know that, by crushing the air conditioners and refrigerators, they were releasing CFC gases into the air. These CFCs would go up into the air, and mess around with the Ozone layer. The ozone molecules have three of themselves stuck together. That’s what makes the Ozone. The CFC molecules would go around the Ozone layer, and seperate the Ozone molecules, so that they were only two of them in one group.

But I already told you that, I just realized.

Anyway, a while ago, they realized what this was doing to the Ozone layer, and made a new law. Every refrigerator and air conditioner now has their CFC tubes removed and recycled. THEN the appliance is destroyed.

It will take a really long time, but the Ozone will replenish itself. We just have to let it. So, we have changed our ways, and are working on making sure that no more CFC gases can get into the air. Scientists belive that by 2050 the Ozone will be almost fully replenished.

Hurray for Mr. Chapin, the father of Chinmaster, aka, The Chin, aka, Sexy Chin.

Well, that’s all from me.

Fascinated NYASH!

Kimmie~