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.

EarthTalk: Global dimming“At first, it sounds like an ironic savior to climate change problems,” writes Anup Shah of the website GlobalIssues.org. “However, it is believed that global ...

Decreasing global dimming may increase the impact of global warming.) If what is depicted in the program is true, what steps would students be willing to take to reduce global dimming? Global warming?

I’ve heard of global warming, of course, but what on Earth is “global dimming?” Max S. Seattle, Wash. Global dimming is a less well-known but real phenomenon resulting from atmospheric ...

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.

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 ...

Global dimming? Global warming? What’s with the globe, anyway? Raise a toast to solar radiation. The director of the Zurich-based World Radiation Monitoring Center, the organization that ...

When pollution rises, sunlight fades In a nutshell After decades of “global dimming” caused by pollution, surface sunlight levels are now rebounding in parts of the world, especially in ...

Stratospheric aerosol injection means spraying reflective particles into the stratosphere (the second layer of the atmosphere), thereby creating a global dimming that would cool the planet.

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 ...