Ice melting faster as Ozone Heals?

When most of the world have warmed the southern hemisphere had alone remained cold thanks to the gaping hole in the ozone. But now a new study shows all the efforts of scientists and environmentalists to close the hole might actually increase the warming of the entire southern hemisphere. This is because the bright summer time clouds, created by the hole, have shielded the sun’s rays by reflecting them back.
The study says, as the ozone heals the clouds will dissipate which will lead to a rise in the temperature faster than the predicted model.
After discovering a ozone hole over Antartica there was a global agreement to ban chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)—the chemicals largely responsible for the thinning of the ozone layer—which reversed the growth of the ozone hole and was deemed one of the biggest environmental success stories of the 20th century.
But the process was slow by which time the changes caused by the hole in the upper atmosphere has intensified.
That’s because, for decades, brighter summertime clouds, created by the hole, have reflected more of the sun’s rays, acting as a shield against global warming. What really happened was the fiercer winds though more sea sprays along which the salt enters the air. This encourages the formation of clouds that reflected the sun shine back into space and have a cooling effect.
The summertime cooling caused by the ozone hole since 1980 has approximately cancelled out the warming caused by rising carbon dioxide emissions, the study says.