Fantastic news, the Ozone layer is healing. Some expert says that the coronavirus outbreak fastens the recovery of the Ozone layer by decreasing the pollution, from your view, do you thought that outbreak somewhat contributes to this event.
Yes, ozone layer is healing, but not due to coronavirus outbreak. Please go through the following RG link.
Article A pause in Southern Hemisphere circulation trends due to the...
You are absolutely right Sir. Not only ozone various other environmental factors are improving. Air quality improved, Noise pollution decreased to such an extent that we can hear birds chirupping in busy localities. Definitely earth is recovering.itself.
The ozone layer is healing, but it is not because of coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown. Kindly see the link below.
https://www.esquireme.com/content/44936-the-ozone-layer-is-healing-but-its-not-because-of-covid-19-lockdown
Dear Mohammed Faez Hasan,
Yes, in my opinion this is a fully justified thesis. Due to the significant decline in production processes and the limitation of human communication, the level of air pollution is decreasing in many countries. Also, many service companies, which in their service processes significantly reduced the scale of operations or had to stop operations, significantly reduced electricity consumption. In countries where most of the electricity is generated from traditional energy sources based on the burning of minerals, this can be of great importance and air quality can significantly improve. Of course, the climate zone and the season of the year are also an important factor, which is related to the issue of heating homes, buildings of companies and institutions, and specific energy technologies used for these purposes. However, this period will not last longer. If the current state of a large decline in production and services provided was to persist for more than a few months, the problem of strong public finance system debt will appear in a significant proportion of national economies and the risk of losing financial liquidity in the system of public institutions will increase, which may lead to a dramatic increase in unemployment and hyperinflation , a decrease in real income, a decrease in the real value of bank deposits, socio-economic chaos, the state may stop working. Such a scenario for many people can unfortunately be much worse than air quality. Of course, my support for the above thesis has attributes of a high level of generality. However, in individual countries the above correlations may look very different.
Regards
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Yes, the earth is healing, production has decreased, which implies lesse wastage, less detrimental to the environment. Less resources are being exploited. Less harm are being done to animals (talking about using animals for production, be it for testing purposes or for animal skins)
Less pollution, which is healing the ozone layer
I would like to add a few words to the recent discussion on such an important topic. I agree with the thesis that due to the decrease in the level of economic growth caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (causing Covid-19 disease), including a decrease in production, investment, electricity consumption by enterprises etc. the level of environmental pollution has decreased natural, including air pollution. A decrease in the level of air pollution can slow down the unfavorable process of decreasing the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere. However, these positive environmental processes can end quickly if in the coming weeks, according to some forecasts, the pandemic enters a decline and / or expiration phase. If the pandemic is about to end and economic processes return to their pre-pandemic status, then due to the relatively short pandemic period, i.e. a period of several months, the decrease in the level of environmental pollution will not be large and the levels of emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere and greenhouse gas emissions can quickly return to the level from before pandemic.
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
For sure when economic activities were halted during the covid situation, very less toxic gases were released in the air, which was indeed healing the ozone layer.
But now, with all the countries taking necessary precautions, actions and focusing on environment and climate safeguarding, such as Denmark and Italy, among others, and all the forums being reinforced, in my opinion, it can help to preserve the ozone layer without further degrading it.
We should not expect an effect (so far) on the ozone layer from the corona related decrease in air pollution. It takes a long time for ozone depleting gasses to distribute to the stratosphere. Additionally most of the ozone depleting potential comes from CFC gasses that were banned decades ago. Other ozone depleting gasses such as N2O are connected with human activities (e.g. intense agriculture) that we didn't decrease during the crisis.
Smoke from intense wildfires that raged across southeastern Australia in 2019–20 has expanded ozone hole.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02782-w
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