This is what #geophysical #warfare looks like: intentionally provoked wildfire, more precisely #firestorms on a backdrop of hot weather - Putin's favorite multimove, as it is cheap, effective, and doesn't provoke retaliation.
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Except for the ground-level ozone pollution mentioned in the article https://go.nasa.gov/4gnrNIn, wildfires/firestorms are the largest global sources of black carbon (soot).
Black carbon absorbs incoming solar radiation and rapidly heats the surrounding air, directly contributing to global climate change and accelerating ice melt.
As smoke drifts over #Arctic or alpine regions, black carbon eventually settles on snow and ice, darkening the normally reflective white surface and causing the ice to absorb more heat and melt faster.
Moreover, intense wildfires create massive storm clouds that shoot black carbon deep into the stratosphere.
Atmospheric studies show that when soot particles are coated in organic wildfire materials, their heat-absorbing properties can double, worsening localized atmospheric heating.
In the 60-s of the 20th century, the Soviet scientists suggested taking all the waste from the waste of Soviet rubber production - soot - to disperse in the Arctic, which should lead to quick liberation from the ice.
The method was named the Budyko Blanket after the famous Soviet climatologist, who suggested this #geoengineering solution.
Later, Budyko replaced the #soot with sulfur dioxide and proposed it as a cooling solution. The second, export version is known in the West as a Budyko blanket, but the Russians, until now, actively use the first one - creating de facto a soot blanket, which destroys the ice and accelerates global #warming.
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