Could Fixing the Ozone Layers Hole Make Global Warming Worse?
Image from NASA Talk about a lose-lose situation: On one hand, not taking any action to repair the hole would allow harmful UV radiation to percolate through; on the other hand, helping to accelerate its recovery could strengthen global warming by trapping more heat in the atmosphere and by disrupting wind patterns in the Southern Hemisphere — causing warming in Antarctica. So says a new study published in Science, in which a team of climatologists, led by Columbia University’s Seok-Woo Son, found that as ozone depletion reverses in the Southern Hemisphere, the stratosphere will begin to rapidly warm up.
