Why the Sun seems to be 'dimming'

BBC ^ | Jan 13, 2005 | David Sington

[Mike Fieschko]

Hope this hasn't been posted. With 3 or less character words not being indexed, 'BBC' and 'sun' can't be searched.

[BigSkyFreeper]

The enviro-Nazi's must be going absolute bat guano over this. They found a new calling.

[Cornpone]

I'll start worrying when I can throw my sunglasses away. For intuitively obvious reasons this story is...let me say, sensational crap.

[Ron in Acreage]

It's all our fault.

[1FASTGLOCK45]

Yup, they are going to make new business cards and update all their pamphlets and propaganda. Chicken Little, The sky is falling! ! ! !

[zahal724]

Isnt the sun usually less bright during the winter...well, not always, but anyway, I dunno about you guys, but over here in Boston today there was an unbearable fog. I couldnt see up 100ft (ok, this is a suburb of Boston, I wasnt in the city today - I admit it.) I realize its kinda hard to see the sun in that much fog, so honestly, I didnt notice that the sun was dimmer...

[xjcsa]

This is such a load of crap I don't even have the energy to *start* debunking it. These people are insane.

[bitt]

their HOPES are dimming, not the Sun!

[Political Junkie Too]

All the space junk is blocking the Sun's rays!!!

We need space environmentalists to block Space the way that they block off-road enthusiasts in hikers in national parks!

-PJ

[MRMEAN]

That means a temperature rise of 10 degrees Celsius by 2100 could be on the cards, giving the UK a climate like that of North Africa, and rendering many parts of the world uninhabitable.
That is unless we act urgently to curb our emissions of greenhouse gases.

Or unless we restart all those dirty coal power plants, go back to using coal for house heating, and mayby convert to coal-powered autos...

[MEG33]

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Great commonsense companion to this article.

[groanup]

Oh boy, here we go. The next crisis. But doesn't this decrease skin cancer?

[AlguyA]

"As things stand, CO2 levels are projected to rise strongly over coming decades, whereas there are encouraging signs that particle pollution is at last being brought under control."

Obviously, then, the solution is to quit trying to bring particle pollution, "under control." Fire up the bar-b and let's have more coal burning, shall we?

[acapesket]

Perhaps the Brits should be more concerned with "DHimmimg"!

[Grant Ellis]

Even with the passing of time and the depreciation of my eyesight over that time, I think I would have noticed a 22% reduction in "solar energy".

[Prime Choice]

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

Stopped reading there. I've had enough pseudo-"science" for one day already.

[Auntie Dem]

Translation:

Since our arguments about global warming aren't getting the traction we think they should be we've got to make the over-hyped crisis seem even MORE imminent now.

The sky is falling twice as fast now!

[Citizen James]

wouldn't this offset global warming? LOL

[MPJackal]

So let me get this straight.......We pollute because, well, that is what filthy humans do. This pollution causes global warming which will kill us all. But the problem is that the pollution is blocking out the sun light needed for global warming to kill us all. Now that is some pretzel logic.

[stevem]

It's all our fault.

Actually, I think it's George Bush's fault.