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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.
For a second there, I was under the impression that this was a study on the intelligence of humans.
*whew*
We can fix global warming by polluting the atmosphere more? Too good to be true. What's the catch?
Table-ized A.I.
I'm buying as many shares of Duracell and EverReady as I can this afternoon!
Future not so bright, shades no longer required.
Quick! Invest in lightbulb manufacturers!
Well, this puts the moderators in a little moral dilemna, doesn't it?
To all those eco-freaks, it's not pollution. It's mood lighting.
We know because my grand father who was the coolest person of his era and in his prime constantly wore sunglasses , even at night to show how cool he was, recently put on a pair of raybans and immediately walked into a lamp post. Fortunately the impact was partly absorbed by his zimmerframe. However it proved conclusively that its darker now than when he was a boy because he could not see where he was going.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
to make sure that solar energy will never be cost-effective. Clever, but diabolical.
My view of the future just got darker...
things are still shining bright. The workers are, at least, and that's good enough for me. AND, I wear my sun glasses at night, so I can, so I can, see you even when I close my eyes.
So how many years before Highlander 2?...
Go here for teh [sic] funny.
One thing that folks have to realize is that scientists are people. They get happy and sad, they are humble and proud, and they lie, steal, cheat and grab for headlines as reagularly as any normal person would.
This is not to discredit the publishers of this work,...
No, of course not. How could someone have misinterpreted what you wrote in the paragraph above as badmouthing scientists? Sheesh!
...every hour to monitor my stocks and commodities. It would download the latest prices every hour. But they suddenly changed the format that the data was represented in and they occasionally added extra significant digits to the prices. Most commodities went through fine but when it reached Chinese tea the extra digit caused a buffer overrun in my code and it went into an infinite loop. The problem is, my cron job was expecting to see a return code, and when it didn't get one, due to a bug in my script it kept spawning new copies of the process in an attempt to get one. Basically I had a fork bomb and it brought my Linux server to a crashing halt...
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
Pollute more! It will prevent global warming! :P
Well duh!
This science experiment is silly. I could have told them about the global dimming thing. Just compare the Beatles "Abbey Road" with a google search of "london". It's much darker over there now than it was when the Beatles released that album.
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First "global warming and now "global dimming."
We're getting cozy, dimming the lights...all we need is "global barry white" and -- BAM -- human population explosion at your service.
...so why is this on slashdot anyway? :P
ascii art
Hmmm...
;P
Less processing power and more errors in humans?
Global Warming?
Has anyone checked to see if the Earth's cooling fan is all clogged up and seized by dust bunnies?
Un-news
No, you can't see the sun on Venus because if you were actually standing there, you'd be dead.
"I wish I could find that damn butterfly that keeps causing all those unforseen outages."
Try MSN.com!
I'm busy, posting AC because I don't have time, nor the inclination, to deal with government shills and disinfo agents, or luddite ridiculous trolls who never go outside, and who have no long term memory of what it used to look like some years ago in the sky.
You can also find out the government buys mega boat loads of aluminum oxide, and a lot of it disappears into a black hole. I spent weeks before every evening tracking this, it's REAL.
Some is used for abrasives, some in munitions, but a lot of it just slides into "you can't go there" government websites. It's used to spray with, using this technique, from tankers. some are reserve air force tankers, some are apaprently government contractors. One private name, that is really a front company, is easy to get to. If a tree isn't deciduous it's
Air samples have been taken all over the nation. The stuff is there, in huge quantities. And it's frequently sprayed directly in front of the cool weather side of approaching fronts. Look then and there, you might see it happening.
Note, I am NOT saying every single contrail you see is purposeful spraying,I want to be clear on that, but you can see when it happens, its quite different, and the persistance is usually a good give away. These sorts of persistant trails were extrmeley rare years ago, they were so rare you hardly saw them. Now, that isn't true.
Merely LOOKING in some government servers gets you noticed by various intel agencies when you are trying to research this. They become quite interested in getting inside your box. It's pretty useless now, they went on an extensive web clean up project to memory hole any easily found evidence. The bulk of the online official type smoking gun evidence has been moved or pulled, mostly by 99, because it really leaked hard in 98. Remnants remain, this being just one of them.
Anyone can just deal with it, it's real, it's been going on for several years now, the evidence is overwhelming. Normal contrails don't exist at low altitude, low humdity, high heat, and they certainly don't last for hours and hours. So no trolls with atmospheric contrails 101, we all know about that, this is quite different.
No, I believe it! So, in order to prevent global warming, we all need to do is create more pollution!
Thanks, scientists! I'll sell my midsize and buy a second SUV immediately!
Unless, ofcourse, the particles are thrown up by nuclear war. Then, of course, we get a winter that kills off all life because all the warmth from the sun is blocked.
However, if the particles are thrown up by automobiles and industry, we get accelerated global warming because all that dust is trapping heat in the atmosphere like a giant blanket.
The answer, obviously, then, is to engage in small-scale nuclear wars on a regular basis to produce mini nuclear winters that will balance all the global warming we're causing.
Tomorrow, environmental scientists will announce that black is really white, except when it is black.
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
long working hours out of the sun
I'm a software engineer... when will my rickets set in??