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MANY anthropogenic threats to the ozone layer have surfaced (eight so far) since McDonald first suggested that supersonic transport aircraft would lead to increased skin cancer. It should be comforting, therefore, that agricultural modifications to the Earth (increased oxygenation, drainage, and pH of the soil and destruction of bacteria culturing humus) are suggested here to be more important than addition of fixed nitrogen in modifying N2O production by denitrifying bacteria. If true, man should have caused an increase in total global ozone.
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ELLSAESSER, H. Has man increased stratospheric ozone?. Nature 270, 592–593 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/270592a0
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