Here's a second-order effect for you. Those politically[Antifa]-induced wild fires in Australia set back the increasing-rate-of-decrease of the ozone hole:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00687-w
Australia’s massive wildfires shredded the ozone layer — now scientists know why
Smoke from the catastrophic 2019–20 fires unleashed ozone-eating chlorine molecules into the stratosphere.
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Ozone recovery at risk
Chlorine-containing molecules that remain from before they were banned are slowly decaying and the annual ozone hole is shrinking. But Solomon says that more-frequent wildfires resulting from climate change could imperil the recovery of the ozone layer.
“It’s like a race,” she says. “Does the chlorine decay out of the stratosphere fast enough in the next, say, 40–50 years that the likely increase in intense and frequent wildfires doesn’t end up prolonging the ozone hole?”
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