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Global Dimming

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
23 September 2004 - 10:00am

Is the amount of sunlight reaching the planet decreasing?

"Global dimming? Does that have something to do with decreasing IQ scores and the proliferation of reality TV? Not quite, but if you missed the story, you would not be the only one. Until Ohmura poked his nose into the radiation record, nobody had noticed that between 1958 and 1988, a whopping 10 percent of solar radiation had disappeared."

Full Story: Dim Sun
Source: Grist Magazine, September 22, 2004
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