Global dimming may mitigate warming, but could hurt crop yields. A plan to spread tiny particles in the stratosphere will involve trade-offs ...

Dimming the Sun homepage. In the early 21st century, it's become clear that air pollution can significantly reduce the amount of sunlight reaching Earth, lower temperatures, and mask the warming ...

Climate researcher James Hansen estimates that "global dimming" is cooling our planet by more than a degree Celsius (1.8°F) and fears that as we cut back on the pollution that contributes to ...

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 ...

Global dimming has already been reversed to a great extent in North America and Europe. This is known as "brightening", unsurprisingly. Since the 1980s, pollution controls have substantially ...

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 ...

Max S. Seattle, Wash. Global dimming is a less well-known but real phenomenon resulting from atmospheric pollution. The burning of fossil fuels by industry and internal combustion engines, in ...

The satellite, Charlson argues, might finally have offered solid data about so-called global dimming -- as well as warming. The device was built and scheduled to launch in 2001.

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.

For global dimming, that period of negligence is now over. Shabtai Cohen and Gerald Stanhill are among the growing flock of scientists who, since Ohmura’s discovery, have conducted research on ...

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.