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Global Dimming offsetting Global Warming...

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We are all seeing rather less of the Sun, according to scientists who have been looking at five decades of sunlight measurements.

They have reached the disturbing conclusion that the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth's surface has been gradually falling.

Paradoxically, the decline in sunlight may mean that global warming is a far greater threat to society than previously thought.

The effect was first spotted by Gerry Stanhill, an English scientist working in Israel.

Cloud changes

Comparing Israeli sunlight records from the 1950s with current ones, Dr Stanhill was astonished to find a large fall in solar radiation.

"There was a staggering 22% drop in the sunlight, and that really amazed me."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4171591.stm
 
So if warming trends are causing clouds to form won't these clouds then stop sunlight from warming the earth?


Isn't nature grand?


There has never been a generation on earth that didn't think that they would be the last.

 
Originally posted by: Squisher
So if warming trends are causing clouds to form won't these clouds then stop sunlight from warming the earth?


Isn't nature grand?


There has never been a generation on earth that didn't think that they would be the last.
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Adam and Eve... but their situation was different 😛
 
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