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Australia fires damaged ozone layer, warmed stratosphere, study says - The Washington Post - 0 views

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  • “It is plausible that the good work carried out under the Montreal Protocol … could be undone by the impact of global warming on intense fires,”
  • under global warming, the frequency and intensity of wildfires is expected to increase, which would lead to more” fire-induced stratospheric warming and ozone depletion in the future
  • The ozone hole that formed over Antarctica following the fires in 2020 was the longest-lasting and among the largest and deepest in decades
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  • “Heating the stratosphere doesn’t really have a direct impact for us at the surface [of the Earth], but keeping the ozone from recovering or destroying the ozone for a year has a real impact at the surface,” he said. “Before the 2019 bush fires, I don’t think we even thought [fires] could have such an impact. That a bush fire could be as impactful as a volcano.”
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