Does Global Climate Change have anything to do with Depletion of the Ozone Layer?

No, Global Climate Change has very little to do with the Depletion of the Ozone Layer Recent global climate change or global warming is now considered by most climate scientists to be the likely result of increases in man-made greenhouse gas concentrations such as carbon Dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. These gases absorb strongly in the Infra red part of the electromagnetic spectrum. This has the effect of trapping heat and raising the temperature of the lower atmosphere The depletion of the ozone (O3) layer or 'ozone hole' occurs mainly in the stratosphere, and is due primarily to variations in the amount of sunlight reaching this area.

There is also the possibility that the process is exacerbated through the catalytic destruction by atomic chlorine and bromine. The main source of these is from the photo dissociation of man made chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) compounds These effects are usually regarded as distinct phenomena. However there are a number of areas of linkage between ozone depletion and recent global warming The same CO2 radiative forcing that produces global warming is expected to cool the stratosphere leading to a relative increase in ozone depletion Reduced ozone causes the stratosphere to absorb less solar radiation, thus cooling the stratosphere while warming the troposphere; the resulting colder stratosphere also emits less long-wave radiation downward, thus cooling the troposphere.

Overall, the cooling dominates Ozone depleting chemicals are also greenhouse gases One of the strongest predictions of the greenhouse effect is that the stratosphere will cool, due to less infra red radiation coming up from the surface and greater radiative cooling of the stratosphere due to more CO2 Ozone itself is a string greenhouse gas, depletion reduces the issue (thus cooling is occurring in the Antarctic where the "hole" exists a few months each year. ) Ozone is also created at the surface due to photochemical reactions between various man made pollutants, this adds to the greenhouse warming but is nothing to do with the ozone depletion in the stratosphere.

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