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More on Global Dimming
dtolman writes "According to the New York Times (registration required) if the world seemed brighter to our grandparents 50 years ago, they were right. While the sun's output hasn't dropped, the amount of sunshine reaching the Earth's surface has dropped an average of 10% since the 1950's. In Hong Kong, the sunlight reaching the surface has decreased even more - 37%! Scientists are theorizing that this is mainly due to air pollution - so this trend might reverse if air pollution clears up." We had a another story on global dimming last year.
"I picked a bad day to quit sniffing glue." Sorry...had to be done.
The Italian navigator has reached the New World and the natives are friendly.
There's an easy way to get the no-reg archive link so why link to a podunk newspaper when it's totally unnecessary?
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
When the "long waves" hit the ground they are radiated back as shorter waves, and that's why the stuff lets it through but then traps it.
Usually entropy (bouncing around) converts short wavelengths to long ones, no? Does this mean that hot buns from the oven may be radiating gamma waves? (so sex jokes please)
Table-ized A.I.
and the fact that you got modded up for saying so proves your point, people are acting like idiots.
Reason, free market capitalism, and individualism
"Shocking as it may seem to you, you are not the only person reading slashdot. This means that one or more readers will be inconvenienced by having to register, NYT or otherwise."
And you think I *haven't* been 'inconvenienced' by having to register? You think I'm flashing some sort of VIP pass and getting in sans registration? Is it suddenly more convenient to go searching through comments looking for the 'reg free link' when all you have to do is register once with fake info?
"Far from being communist, this is elementary courtesy, something your parents failed to communicate to you."
NYT's doing the work and Slashdot's leeching off it. Why aren't you proposing that we show NYT the courtesy of doing the simple task they ask in order to get to their content?
"So go upstairs (stomping your feet) and yell at your mom for not teaching you courtesy and consideration for others."
Hypocrite.
"Derp de derp."
Of course, because if that light didn't hit those particles it would simply pass through the fucking Earth.
Thanks for thinking things through instead of just rationalizing new information into your set of prejudices.
-Peter