Global Dimming
NOVA sent chills over my body tonight. Global dimming is another major problem associated with burning fossil fuels. The visible pollutants of fossil fuel emissions get caught in the atmosphere and reflect sunlight before it gets to the earth’s surface. The result is a cooling of the earth.
Sounds good, especially with global warming, right? Wrong. Global dimming significantly alters the precipitation cycles around the world. Worse, it masks the effect of global warming by more than half. As visible pollutants decrease global dimming (the trend in US & Europe, but not Asia), global warming increases. It’s like a Red Bull vodka shot for the climate.
The world needs to wake up. Clean air isn’t enough. The need to reduce greenhouse is more urgent now than ever because of this discovery.
Related: Global dimming on Wikipedia
Posted on Sunday, April 23rd, 2006 at 0:35.
I tried watching it the other night. It disturbed me so much that I turned the TV off.