Pollution dims skies as well as befouling the air (Global Dimming Alert!!!)

AP via Yahoo ^

[Slapshot68]

"WASHINGTON – The skies are dimming, for most of the world. Increases in airborne pollution have dimmed the skies by blocking sunlight over the past 30 years, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.

While decreases in atmospheric visibility — known as global dimming — have been reported in the past, the new study compiles satellite and land-based data for a longer period than had been available.

"Creation of this database is a big step forward for researching long-term changes in air pollution and correlating these with climate change," Kaicun Wang, assistant research scientist in the University of Maryland, said in a statement. "And it is the first time we have gotten global long-term aerosol information over land to go with information already available on aerosol measurements over the world's oceans."

They reported that dimming is occurring everywhere except Europe, where declines in pollution have resulted in brighter skies."

[Slapshot68]

The global dimming over the U.S. has more to do with the Dems running the show now.

[xcamel]

No, it’s “Global Dumbing”

[Major Matt Mason]

It looks like the Global Warming Propaganda Machine is gearing up again.

[George Smiley]

This is actually a serious issue for astronomers, and has been for quite some time.

[An.American.Expatriate]

Hmmm -—

if the skies are dimming, that means that less light is penetrating the atmosphere. this causes less agitation and less warming.

Thus, less light, less warming.

So, which is it are we warming or dimming (cooling)?

[SkyDancer]

Happens all the time here in the PNW ... clouds come over, darken the skies and then it rains ....

[TaraP]

Check this out..

http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/index.html

The earth magnetosphere are dropping down,
[link to www.3daysofdarkness.com]

‘’Nothing can be seen, and the air will be laden with pestilence which will claim mainly’’

The idea was that IF the magnetosphere would fail and there is no sunlight AND the crisis with riots and wars ect would arise this ‘’virus’’ that they tried to spread, would be released during this period and creating a epidemic under the already stressed population.

[Abathar]

I guess someone should tell them to stop doing their tests on cloudy days.

[Domandred]

Night time light pollution is worse than “global dimming”, and there are relatively easy, cost effective solutions to it that won’t cost people jobs or slow/halt production.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

The real dimming is happening in our classrooms.

[Red Badger]

Wouldn’t that dim the sun’s heat so Globull Warming is lessened
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[12chachacha]

Those evil cow farts again.

[GLDNGUN]

This is "old news". There were some European scientists a few years back that said global warming was due to the fact that there is "much less" pollutants in the sky now than decades ago, and less pollution means more sunlight reaching the surface of the earth and not being deflected into the atmosphere. As this report says, Europe is getting "brighter". Why? Because of the fall of Communism. The eeevil Capitalists CLEANED UP the plants in Eastern Europe that had been belching horrendous pollution into the atmosphere during Soviet domination. With much less Communist pollution in the air, more sunlight was reaching the earth.

In other words, cleaning up the atmosphere leads to global warming. Global "dimming" would mean global "cooling".

These "scientists" are worthless jokes.

[TaraP]

FROM 2005 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

[Melinda]

Anyone who grew up on the coast could see this on the horizon starting back in the late ‘60’s early ‘70’s. Here's hoping someday my children will get to see the crystal clear blue sky I remember but haven't seen in decades.

[GLDNGUN]

‘’Nothing can be seen, and the air will be laden with pestilence which will claim mainly’’

...which will claim mainly? HUH? What does that mean?

Your link to the charts shows exactly what? As compared to what?

[GLDNGUN]

Your 3 days of darkness link give some advice at the bottom of the page. It says:

"SPREAD THE MESSAGE; Remain in the state of grace. Go to Mass, and regularly receive Holy Communion. Say your rosary every day. Obtain some wax candles and have these blessed by a Traditionalist priest. Do not buy ordinary white candles; they are not made of wax. Do not trust either a "new-breed" priest to bless your candles. Pray for the liberty and exultation of the True Church. Say the prayer to St. Michael which His Holiness Pope Leo XIII composed after witnessing a terrifying vision of Satan's power. Wear the Brown Scapular and the miraculous medal. Deny yourself some legitimate pleasures and entertainment; many of the holy individuals who have predicted this chastisement, insist on this. Eat sparingly, frugally, to sustain life more than to gratify the palate. When the proximate signs are over, i.e., war and revolution culminating in the victory of communism, when you behold the Warning, then store up food, drinking water, blankets and other necessities.

Is this what you are subscribing to and recommending?

[norwaypinesavage]

I smell a return to the Global Cooling scare of the 70’s. We are quietly seeing Global Warming slip under the rug, and soon we’ll start to see scenes of frozen wastelands that used to be America’s great Midwestern bread basket. Fortunately, the solutions are the same: government control of energy production. Or is it something fishy that I smell?

[Mike Darancette]

It’s just one thing after another with these Dooms Day Crazed Luddite Weasels.

[TaraP]

I recommend that people might take another look at a Dimming Sun, a Weakening Magnetic Field, a lack of Solar Energy (Sunpsots) as a possible Sign from Our Creator that we are in the *Last Days* and Judgement Day will fall upon the earth. 3 Days of Darkness as a Prophetic Event

It happened in Egypt as one of the 10 Plagues.