Ozone hole dominates climate change
Climate policymakers and scientists need to look beyond global warming
Climate policymakers and scientists need to look beyond global warming
The stratospheric ozone layer has thinned over the South Pole over the last half-century. This depletion of ozone has shifted the Southern Hemisphere’s climate so that dry areas in the subtropics now see about ten percent more precipitation in summer than they used to, scientists reported in the journal Science.
Ozone is now widely believed to be the dominant agent of climate change in the Southern Hemisphere, so this actually means that the international agreements regulati lead author, Sarah Kang of Columbia University.
