Combating Global Warming Will Kill The Ozone Layer

Spraying of sulfate aerosols in the atmosphere, which can prevent global warming, significantly delaying time stretch the giant Antarctic ozone holes and the thickness will reduce the ozone shield over the Arctic.

The work of Simone Tilms from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, accepted for publication in Science, dispelled the myth about the safety of such a “deliberate and controlled” interference in the environment.

According to estimates Tilms themselves sulfate has no adverse impact on the ozone layer, but small particles can easily become activators of the processes of decomposition under the influence of O3, halides, accumulated in the atmosphere over the poles. Adsorbed on the particle surface, and halides, especially chlorine, in spite of very cold air, are chemically very active due to the intense ultraviolet rays of the sun.

Paul Crutzen, a Nobel laureate in chemistry, is not the first year of his colleagues seriously considering the idea of ??using sulfuric acid aerosol, which could inject humanity into stratospheric layers. Sulfates, which have enormous heat capacity, so could protect the lower atmosphere from heating.

To calculate the actual course of events, the team used a combination of different Tilms meteorological data and mathematical modeling. It is estimated that these measures to cool the climate may be allowed only in the middle of next century, when the legislative measures that restrict the production of household chemicals containing free chlorine, lead to a significant reduction of these gases in the atmosphere of the earth.

Crutzen idea is not groundless. In making it, a scientist in the first place, referring to the natural processes – volcanoes, in which the atmosphere gives off huge amounts of sulfur compounds in the past centuries once provoked freezing of the planet. If disposed of sulfates into the atmosphere in small quantities and do it with small intervals, cooling the Earth’s climate to achieve it would be quite feasible. However, it seems that such an approach, which the scientist and his colleagues had loudly dubbed “geoizhiniringom” in the near future will not get implemented.