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Why the ozone hole is not the greenhouse effect

One is a seasonal thin place in the ultraviolet shield, and the other is infrared slowed by greenhouse gases.

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The ozone hole is not the greenhouse effect because it is a seasonal loss of stratospheric ozone over a pole, which lets more ultraviolet through. The greenhouse effect is extra infrared opacity, largely from gases that are not the ones opening the hole. The opening covers chlorine, cold clouds, spring sun, infrared opacity is a different file, and a seasonal map, not a heat dial.

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Chlorine, cold clouds, spring sun
Infrared opacity is a different file
A seasonal map, not a heat dial
Where the two problems actually touch
Where the idea stops applying
A distinction worth keeping

Sources

Catalytic ozone loss on polar stratospheric clouds
The radiative greenhouse effect of infrared-active gases

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Why the ozone hole is not the greenhouse effect

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