Intense Wildfires Can Punch Through Ozone

The article states examples of how the large forest fires especially those recently found in North America have been effecting the Ozone layer of the atmosphere. The article goes in detail about how the constant layering of the smoke from the large fires, that rise high into that atmosphere get trapped below the ozone and then causes damage. This could have world altering effects on the environment and could possibly cause such events as a nuclear winter.

Overall the effects that these phenomenons could continue to have on the environment could be life ending if serve enough. Even currently as the Amazon burns, the smoke plums continue to rise into the atmosphere continuing the clog. These effects as mentioned in the article could cause a nuclear winter, which would kill most of the life on the planet. This along with possible events such as the eruption of Yellowstone National Park could be seriously detrimental to possible future inhabitants in the future.

 https://www.sciencenews.org/article/worst-wildfires-can-send-smoke-high-enough-affect-ozone-layer

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  1. AnonymousSeptember 2, 2019 at 4:45 PM

    This is a very concerning issue as the ozone layer is what protects the earth from dangerous objects outside of our planet. People only consider the affect that they see everyday in the world around them. This article adds an additional concern to the climate and how smoke can affect our planet and be a danger to future generations.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 14, 2019 at 5:25 PM

    I feel that we should spend more of our countries budget to help save the environment. Maybe if we spent more money to power equipment and pay operators that we could do more about these troublesome wildfires. Also if we did a better job, it would allow for the ozone layer to heal the damage caused to it.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 15, 2019 at 12:11 PM

    I know that in some cases, natural wildfires are necessary to clear dry, flammable material which both prevents larger fires from occurring as well as returning nutrients to the soil with the leftover ash. Would it make more sense to stop all wildfires from starting, which reduces the soil quality and increases the chance of future fires happening or allowing natural fires to burn and damage the ozone layer further?

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