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POPSThe Sun IS Slowing Down.... Quick- light a fire, go for a drive, do something- anything- just make some more CO2 before we all freeze to death.. Wish I was joking, but the lack of sunspots too makes me think we could soon be very grateful for our atmospheric blanket! Mind you, we only have to ground the airplanes for one day a week to reduce global dimming and presto!- global warming at the stroke of a pen....
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POPSBlue skies, scorched Earth? What is Global Dimming? If we were to eliminate global dimming all together without addressing global warming the increase in temperature and extreme weather might be more significant than previously predicted. This has been recorded with one full degree temperature change in just a few days of decreased pollution in the days following the 9/11 attacks . This reverse effect of dimming has been has been blamed along with global warming for increasing temperatures, appropriately called global brightening . No one wants smoggy skies but it could be smog and particulates that may be shielding us from the full consequences of the greenhouse gases we pump into our air daily. Clear blue skies are something many folks thinks of when they think of “going green” but those clear blue skies may hold more heat than we can handle.
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POPSGlobal Dimming Documentary BLOG Inspiration - Creativity Share your ideas the primary job of our generation is to care about world hunger world climate
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POPSAre scientists underestimating climate change? "Uncertainties in climate change science are inevitably large, due both to inadequate scientific understanding and to uncertainties in human agency or behavior . Policies therefore must be based on risk management , that is, on consideration of the probability times the magnitude of any deleterious outcomes for different scenarios of human behavior." "The above recent developments simply might mean that the science is progressing, but it also may suggest that up until now many scientists may have consciously or unconsciously downplayed the more extreme possibilities at the high end of the uncertainty range, in an attempt to appear moderate and 'responsible' (that is, to avoid scaring people). However, true responsibility is to provide evidence of what must be avoided: to define, quantify, and warn against possible dangerous or unacceptable outcomes."
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