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 fossil ...

"Dimming the Sun" investigates the discovery that the sunlight reaching Earth has been growing dimmer, which may seem surprising given all the international concern over global warming. At first ...

From the abstract of the lead paper by Martin Wild: Recent evidence suggests that solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface has not been constant over time but has undergone substantial variations ...

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 effects ...

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As if I wasn’t already freaked out enough about the planet’s future, my sister just mentioned something called “global dimming.” I’m not too sure what this is, but it sounds ominous. Is this dimming ...

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 pollution. The ...

One trend in pollution has been diminishing the effects of another, but as particulate emissions are contained, their disappearance from the atmosphere will unmask the true impact of global warming ...

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 ...