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Also the soot from the fires lands on ice/glaciers, increasing their melting.

• dredmorbius 3y ago
  That's partially mitigated in regions which still have ongoing precipitation, so that the soot doesn't remain on top of the snow/ice for years on end. There are, however, "cold deserts" which see very little precipitation, and for which this does occur, notably in Antarctica. What snow is on the ground accumulates slowly over millennia, and there are places where all precipitation has sublimated or blown away, the "cold valleys" of Antarctica, with bare scoured rock. And of course, even with seasonal precip, dust and soot will speed melting of snowcap and glaciers between precipitation events.