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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ZURICH — Sunshine is making a surprising return in some parts of the world after decades of growing dimmer. International scientists tracking the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface have ...

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has announced a five-year research plan to study the possible ways of implementing “solar geoengineering” — reflecting some of the sun’s light ...

A new NASA study has found that an important counter-balance to the warming of our planet by greenhouse gases – sunlight blocked by dust, pollution and other aerosol particles – appears to have lost ...

Scientists are proposing an ingenious but as-yet-unproven way to tackle climate change: spraying sun-dimming chemicals into the Earth's atmosphere. The research by scientists at Harvard and Yale ...

The New York Times just reported that a new phenomenon might be upon us, one that seems to be causing less and less sunshine to reach the earth s surface. More specifically, about 10% less sunshine ...

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relates how the first signs of global dimming came in the 1980s when one scientist—who measured sunlight amounts over Israel in the 1950s—found a 22 percent drop in sunlight 20 years later. reports ...