"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Scientists are proposing an ingenious but as ...

It seems that the only thing that everyone agrees with is that the Earth’s atmosphere is an incredibly complex system. Recently, another lesser-known global effect making headlines is a phenomenon ...

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