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The Earth's accidental sun shade
The Newark Star Ledger ^ | 03.31.04 | MARGIE WYLIE

Posted on 04/01/2004 9:58:21 PM PST by Coleus

Edited on 07/06/2004 6:39:37 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Gerald Stanhill was reviewing solar radiation records in the late 1980s when he stumbled onto something that amazed him: Days were growing dimmer.

"It was difficult to believe," said Stanhill, an Israeli government scientist. "So I started looking around for other continuous, long series of solar radiation measurements to make sure it wasn't an error."


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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globaldimming; martinwild; sunshade; zurich
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1 posted on 04/01/2004 9:58:21 PM PST by Coleus
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To: farmfriend; seamole
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2 posted on 04/01/2004 9:58:43 PM PST by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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To: Coleus
I'm reminded of a line from Tori Amos:

"The sun is getting dim/will we pay for who we've been?"
3 posted on 04/01/2004 10:00:54 PM PST by KangarooJacqui (Living next to the biggest Islamic country on earth - I say shoot 'em all and let God sort 'em out)
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4 posted on 04/01/2004 10:01:23 PM PST by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: Coleus
I'd rather not live in darkness.
5 posted on 04/01/2004 10:03:30 PM PST by rogueleader
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To: Coleus
EXAMPLE OF ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE
6 posted on 04/01/2004 10:04:48 PM PST by LiteKeeper
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To: All
The holy centaurs of the hills are vanished;
I have nothing but the embittered sun;
Banished heroic mother moon and vanished,
And now that I have come to fifty years
I must endure the timid sun.
7 posted on 04/01/2004 10:05:17 PM PST by BushMeister
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To: Coleus
don't invest in sunglasses.

Read my story.. see my FRhomepage

8 posted on 04/01/2004 10:06:14 PM PST by GeronL (Hey, I am on the internet. I have a right (cough, cough) to write stupid things.)
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To: Coleus
"It's an interesting phenomenon, but maybe it's a bit premature to call it global."

NO! We must do something, anything, NOW before we have all the facts!

Hurry! Make signs, protest something and do your part!

Remember the environmentalist's motto: Think locally, act globally!

9 posted on 04/01/2004 10:06:20 PM PST by Imal (Become a Free Republic Monthly Donor! It's easy, painless and makes the world a better place.)
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To: Coleus
What with solar shading
and global warming
every wintry morn
is just another charming
hot summer night
10 posted on 04/01/2004 10:07:01 PM PST by freebilly
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To: rogueleader
I'd rather not live in darkness.

Invest in lightbulbs

11 posted on 04/01/2004 10:07:01 PM PST by GeronL (Hey, I am on the internet. I have a right (cough, cough) to write stupid things.)
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To: Coleus
downward trends in surface solar radiation in Japan,

Maybe another bomb will fix it.

>:P

12 posted on 04/01/2004 10:08:30 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny
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To: Coleus
But what about the rise in skin cancer caused by the suns rays being stronger. Have they been lying to us about that?

How do you measure the intensity of sunshine 30 years ago? How do you measure the rate of evaporation 30 years ago?
13 posted on 04/01/2004 10:09:53 PM PST by w1andsodidwe
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To: w1andsodidwe
The skin cancer is coming from the radioactive coolant that Russian satellites have been leaking all over Earth orbit.
14 posted on 04/01/2004 10:11:29 PM PST by GeronL (Hey, I am on the internet. I have a right (cough, cough) to write stupid things.)
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To: GeronL
Oh thank god for that rational explanation!!!
15 posted on 04/01/2004 10:12:46 PM PST by w1andsodidwe
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To: LiteKeeper
'Global Dimming' or 'How liberals got that way' ;)

16 posted on 04/01/2004 10:15:31 PM PST by CarolAnn
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To: w1andsodidwe
Russian/Soviet RORSATs were nuclear powered and their leaked radioactive coolant has damaged satellites and experiments in the past. This is a real story BTW!
17 posted on 04/01/2004 10:17:56 PM PST by GeronL (Hey, I am on the internet. I have a right (cough, cough) to write stupid things.)
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To: Coleus
I would really like to see proof that people have been sitting around measuring water evaporation from open pans over the past 30 years. The mind boggles. The Fed. Gov't would have had to have been behind this one, no matter where. Then they didn't notice it until now!
18 posted on 04/01/2004 10:26:38 PM PST by Risor
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To: Coleus
Between global warming and global dimming, which should result in global cooling, we ought to be just right. ; )
19 posted on 04/01/2004 10:28:34 PM PST by skr (Pro-life from cradle to grave)
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To: Risor
Higher relative humidity slows evaporation too.

Why is it the latest environmental theories sound like O Suzanna?

It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry
The sun so hot, I froze to death Suzanna don't you cry.

20 posted on 04/01/2004 10:36:48 PM PST by edeal
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