Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 079 of Weather Break
Recognizing the damage that CFCs and certain other pollutants were doing to the Ozone Layer, the nations of the world signed the Montreal Protocol in the 1980s.  This treaty largely eliminated production of these chemicals, and worldwide observations of stratospheric ozone concentrations [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 078 of Weather Break
Despite the fact that ozone and the ozone layer are essential to life on Earth, industrial production of chlorofluorocarbons (or “CFCs”) has resulted in a depletion of ozone worldwide.  However, it should be pointed out that the total amount of ozone in [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 077 of Weather Break
Industrial production of chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, has caused a global thinning of the Earth’s ozone layer, which is essential to life on our planet.  For complex reasons, the problem is worst over Antarctica, where the ozone concentration sometimes falls to zero [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 076 of Weather Break
Ozone is a trace constituent of the Earth’s atmosphere, with its concentration measured in the parts per billion.  However, despite its very low abundance, ozone is essential for life on Earth.  In today’s episode of Weather Break, Creighton University student Ross Caniglia [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 075 of Weather Break
How does a flash of lightning, which only lasts a few hundredths of a second, result in the rumbling crash of thunder that we hear at the earth’s surface?  In today’s episode of Weather Break, Dr. Jon Schrage discusses how the relatively [...]

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