Australia’s severe 2019-20 wildfires acted like a volcanic eruption, slightly cooling the globe

Australia’s disastrous 2019-2020 fire season blew so much smoke into the upper atmosphere that it blocked sunlight from reaching Earth’s surface, potentially causing a brief global cooling effect comparable to a moderate volcanic eruption, new research has found.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/12/12/australia-wildfires-volcanoes-global-effects/