Healing of ozone hole could accelerate global warming
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) image of the largest ozone hole ever observed in September 2006 (left) and the ozone layer as it appeared in December 2009
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You'd think the healing of the hole in the ozone layer would be good news, but it seems that although every cloud is said to have a silver lining, they also have a gray one as well. The Antarctic ozone hole was once regarded as one of the biggest environmental threats, but researchers now argue that the ozone hole over Antarctica helped to shield this region from carbon-induced warming over the past two decades and its repair could actually increase warming in the southern hemisphere.
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