1-8: Man-made Chemicals, CFCs

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• Linking Ozone Depletion to Climate Change
  
  
• Emissions of Methyl Chloroform from Europe
  
  
• NASA's UARS Confirms CFCs Caused Antarctic Ozone Hole
  
  

Websites

• Ozone Depletion News
  
  
• Ozone Hole 2005
  
  
• Current Greenhouse Gas Concentrations
  
  
• Volcanic Sulfur Aerosols Affect Global Climate and the Earth's Ozone Layer
  
  
• The Reston Chlorofluorocarbon Laboratory
  
  
• CIESIN Thematic Guide on Ozone Depletion Issues
  
  
• Ozone Depletion Glossary
  
  
• Stratospheric Ozone and Human Health
  
  

Additional References

• Giles, J., 2005: Hikes in surface ozone could suffocate crops. Nature, 435, 7.
  
  
• Gribble, G.W., 2004: Amazing organohalogens. American Scientist, 92, 342-349.
  
  
• Rozema, J., B. van Geel, L. O. Bjorn, J. Lean, and S. Madronich, 2002: Toward solving the UV puzzle. Science, 296, 1621-1622.
  
  
• Houghton, J. T., L. G. Meira Filho, B. A. Callander N. Harris, A. Kattenberg, and K. Maskell, 1996: Climate Change 1995. The Science of Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, 91-97.
  
  
• Williams, Yagi K., et al., 1995: Atmospheric methyl bromide (CH₃Br) form agricultural soil fumigations. Science, 267, 1979-1981.
  
  
• Shull, R. D., et al., 1993: Nanocomposites for magnetic refrigeration. Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 286, 449-453.
  
  
• Hoffman, J.S., 1990: Replacing the CFC's: The search for alternatives. Ambio, 19, 329-333.
  
  
• Houghton, J.T., G.J. Jenkins, J.J. Ephraums, ds, 1990: 1990 Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, 23-24.
  
  
• Houghton, J. T., G. J. Jenkins, and J. J. Ephraums, 1990: Climate Change, The IPCC Scientific Assessment. Cambridge University Press. p. 23-25.
  
  
• Can the ozone layer be restored?, California Agriculture, 48, 4-5.