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BBC on Global Dimming
linoleo writes "The BBC reports that the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth's surface has declined significantly between the 1950s and the 1990s, apparently due to particulate air pollution. Scientists are worried that this global dimming may be disrupting the pattern of the world's rainfall. Most alarmingly, it may have led us to greatly underestimate the greenhouse effect: with particulate pollution being brought under control, a global temperature rise of 10 degrees Celsius by 2100 could be on the cards, rendering many parts of the world uninhabitable." The lengthy transcript of the show is available.
Great - the UK might be a nice place to live by then! You can keep your Med coasts in France, and Spain - arrid deserts, they'll be in 100 years. Invest in Dorset, I say :)
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...except for Detroit and Cleveland, which would become slightly less uninhabitable.
News at 11.
Seriously folks, non-doomsday research doesn't get as much funding as doomsday research.
I knew buying all that land in the frozen north would pay off!
all those people will be flocking to the tropical shores of wonderful Lake erie!
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You guys are always so negative. With a global temperature rise of 10 degrees, think of all the places that would become inhabitable... like Canada.
People already live in the edge conditions of human habitability... places like the Sahara Desert, Antarctica, and New Jersey.
I guess they mean that places that are currently inhabitted will have to be abandoned.
Kent: Hordes of panicky people seem to be evacuating the town for some unknown reason. Professor, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?
Professor: Mmm, yes I would, Kent.
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F09.html
> Where doomed
Right over there, behind the plant.
Or, did you mean "We're doomed." Jackass.
You've seen this, no?
Fry: This snow is beautiful. I'm glad global warming never happened.
Leela: Actually, it did. But thank God nuclear winter cancelled it out.
...but not today.
Why dont you stick a label to "Global-warming":
"Global warmimg is a theory, not a fact."
Instead of having people believe its all a fear monger game.
We were wrong! It's more people moving towards the use of solar powered homes! We're using up the sun!
The US Energy Policy is an example of localized dimming...If someone buries their head in the sand (or in some other dark place...), their vision is limited.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
BBC EXCLUSIVE: Scientists have acquired evidence that the Earth will be absorbed by the Sun in approximately 7.7 billion years.
"No one will survive this catastrophe," claims experts. "All life on planet Earth will be extinguished. If we don't take action now, this atrocity will claim every living man, woman and child on this planet."
Environmentalists are asking for trillions of dollars for research grants and book advances with which to shriek about the coming apocalypse.
It's not a lie. It's the truth with lossy compression.