Q: I’ve heard of global warming, of course, but what on Earth is “global dimming?” A: Global dimming is a less known but real phenomenon resulting from atmospheric pollution. The burning of ...

Global dimming and brightening in the context of solar radiation Recent evidence suggests that solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface has not been constant over time but has undergone ...

Ask students to explain what they know about global warming and global dimming. Review these climate phenomena with students, including how the phenomena are believed to occur and what their ...

Max S. Seattle, Wash. Global dimming is a less well-known but real phenomenon resulting from atmospheric pollution. The burning of fossil fuels by industry and internal combustion engines, in ...

Global dimming is defined as the decrease in the amounts of solar radiation reaching the surface of the Earth. The by-product of fossil fuels are tiny particles or pollutants.

For global dimming, that period of negligence is now over. Shabtai Cohen and Gerald Stanhill are among the growing flock of scientists who, since Ohmura’s discovery, have conducted research on ...

Though dimming can severely harm crops—less sunlight means less evaporation, which in turn means less rain—it may also mask the most noticeable effects of global warming.

This global dimming and brightening phenomenon isn’t uniform across the planet. The paper shows that while Europe, Japan, and the United States experienced dimming until the 1980s followed by ...

Writing at the Celsias blog, Craig Mackintosh notes that decades of global dimming -- the reflection of the sun's light back into space due to pollutants in earth's atmosphere -- may have been ...

These variations are particularly marked in the “global dimming” phase, which lasted from the 1950s to the 1980s.During this time, solar radiation decreased significantly due to the growing ...

Recent evidence suggests that solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface has not been constant over time but has undergone substantial variations on decadal timescales.