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Five layers of atmosphere cloak the Earth. The lower atmospheric layer, in which people live and breathe, is the troposphere. Two layers that make up the middle atmosphere -- the stratosphere, where jets fly, and the mesosphere -- cover the troposphere. The upper atmosphere contains both the thermosphere, where the aurora borealis lights up the sky, and the exosphere, where the atmosphere meets space. The ozone layer lies within the stratosphere. Carbon dioxide concentrations are increasing in all layers but the exosphere. TL;DR (Too Long; Didn't Read) Carbon dioxide prevents the formation of new ozone molecules in the troposphere, and...

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