GLOBAL DIMMING
Global Dimming and Warming ... Contradictions, or helpful information ??
Just as many of you it seems, i too was somewhat confused by the mixed messages that were, and are being served to us regarding the academic discussion on the plausibility of the Global Warming Issue ... that being, ... does Mankind have, or have anything to do with it?...
The Sun, and her cycle, volcano eruptions, methane, rotting vegetation, and so on, ... i just keep feeling ... all is one ... yes, all these things are a part of our existence, goes without saying really.
Whether or not these conflicting arguments have any basis, really becomes a none starter, when we take into account the following findings of Global Dimming studies ...
These studies, proven to be a truism, following findings of the American Scientist of long standing, David Travis, out of University of Wisconsin, following the groundings of aircraft for the three days after 9/11, when clear and cloudless skies inspired him to relate the lack of "Con Trails" to this phenomena, thus finding that temperatures grew higher, and beyond any know increase...
The chicken and egg argument, ... that of whether ... warming precedes, or follows a build up of greenhouse gasses, and particularly Co2 ... became irrelevant, the fact is ... we are creating these gasses ... they are affecting our weather ... Globally ... Who is talking about this?
While the view of lifetime scientists and academics it totally appreciated, and respected, one must still realise, that in every walk of life, there are those who will justify their thoughts no matter what conflicting evidence might say .... each camp must justify the use of it's funds , and make an argument so as to receive further funding ... say no more...
By global warming sceptics, we're told that airborne Co2 content in fact lags behind temperature rise throughout our known Earth's atmospheric history, ... so they tell us that the weather is not, nor ever has been driven by Co2 ... while, within the evidence given by scientists researching Global Dimming, we see that airborne pollution, some of which, is manmade ... IS at This time, a Primary cause of weather pattern change, ... this, due to the Sun's rays being bounced back into space, off of the increased number of water laden particulates ... which must exist to be able in fact to cause this happening ... this has been researched, and appears to be a proven fact ...
QED ... Man IS having an added affect on nature, and her cycles ... Going by GD findings, There can be No argument ... Surely, ... this should then be the starting point of any discussion ...
The Paradox of our times.
Global Dimming, being the cooling effect of pollutants in the Atmosphere, by means of creating thereon smaller water droplets which are reflecting extra Sunlight outwards, allowing less Sunlight to a cooler Earth ... while we continue to add too this pollution.
This lack of Sun, cooling, then refusing the "expected normal" movement of rain clouds through less radiation on the surface of the Earth and in the lower Atmosphere.
A phenomenon of duality which, both protects and threatens simultaneously is helping the Earth to stay cooler than it should be by now, and threatening to overheat us if we try to rapidly remove it.....
Scientists researching decades of sunlight measurements have come to what is an even more disturbing conclusion than the presently held opinions regarding global warming.
As a whole, the Earth is receiving less sunlight, and scientists are now sure that the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth's surface has been gradually falling, leading them to believe that global warming is a greater threat to us than previously imagined.
Independent research from around the globe confirms that we are indeed receiving less sunlight due to polluting particles in the atmosphere, some placed there naturally by nature, but moreover, Manmade Emissions Adding too this ... causing more sunlight to be reflected back out into space via. this visible pollution that we create by way of ash, soot, sulphur and so on, the stuff that radiate such wonderful sunsets.
This larger number of particles seed smaller, and many more water droplets than usual, causing the clouds that they form, to become more of a mirror, than would "normally be the case" ... thus reflecting extra sunrays back towards space.
The bottom line of all this means that if it were not for pollution in the atmosphere, the Earth at this time would indeed be much hotter than it is!!!!
Here in Europe, following reductions in emissions, we've experienced warmer weather, bringing many more deaths than would be expected ...
So....... pollution is in fact keeping the Earth from faster Global Warming, helping to hold it back, and somehow, we have to juggle decreasing pollutants, while not causing an imbalance in the way that nature is handling our carelessness.
"Even the most pessimistic forecasts of global warming may now have to be drastically revised upwards. That means a temperature rise of 10°C 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."
This i know seems to be a total contradiction ... but wait, think on it ... if these GD findings are correct, and there's no good scientific reason not to trust them, ... should we continue unabated, to create, not lessen our emissions, ... then this added reflection of the sun's rays, will surely bring about more and more drought, more deserts will appear, and so on, one can follow this simple process through to predicted possibilities.
Should we allow ourselves to help overheat the globe, particularly then the oceans, we can look forward to the release of so much methane, as we can't believe, or know the consequences of ...
From here, it's not a great leap of imagination, that might bring us to understanding why these observed "Chem Trails" are being experimented with ... what might have been an option to help save, or help bring the earth's weather patterns back together, could have turned into a possible weapon of mass destruction ... just a thought ...
Google ... Chemtrails ... it's creepy ...
There follows information from other sources, and video on each aspect of this debate .. it's really for you to decide whether or not you are having an affect on nature's work, and if you feel you are, then what will you do, or try to get your government to do?
Below, an extract from www.Guardian Unlimited, Click to read more and have your say if you wish.
December 2003
The Guardian
In 1985, a geography researcher called Atsumu Ohmura at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology got the shock of his life. As part of his studies into climate and atmospheric radiation, Ohmura was checking levels of sunlight recorded around Europe when he made an astonishing discovery. It was too dark. Compared to similar measurements recorded by his predecessors in the 1960s, Ohmura's results suggested that levels of solar radiation striking the Earth's surface had declined by more than 10% in three decades. Sunshine, it seemed, was on the way out.
The finding went against all scientific thinking. By the mid-80s there was undeniable evidence that our planet was getting hotter, so the idea of reduced solar radiation - the Earth's only external source of heat - just didn't fit. And a massive 10% shift in only 30 years? Ohmura himself had a hard time accepting it. "I was shocked. The difference was so big that I just could not believe it," he says. Neither could anyone else. When Ohmura eventually published his discovery in 1989 the science world was distinctly unimpressed. "It was ignored," he says.
It turns out that Ohmura was the first to document a dramatic effect that scientists are now calling "global dimming". Records show that over the past 50 years the average amount of sunlight reaching the ground has gone down by almost 3% a decade. It's too small an effect to see with the naked eye, but it has implications for everything from climate change to solar power and even the future sustainability of plant photosynthesis. In fact, global dimming seems to be so important that you're probably wondering why you've never heard of it before. Well don't worry, you're in good company. Many climate experts haven't heard of it either, the media has not picked up on it, and it doesn't even appear in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
"It's an extraordinary thing that for some reason this hasn't penetrated even into the thinking of the people looking at global climate change," says Graham Farquhar, a climate scientist at the Australian National University in Canberra. "It's actually quite a big deal and I think you'll see a lot more people referring to it."
That's not to say that the effect has gone unnoticed. Although Ohmura was the first to report global dimming, he wasn't alone. In fact, the scientific record now shows several other research papers published during the 1990s on the subject, all finding that light levels were falling significantly. Among them they reported that sunshine in Ireland was on the wane, that both the Arctic and the Antarctic were getting darker and that light in Japan, the supposed land of the rising sun, was actually falling. Most startling of all was the discovery that levels of solar radiation reaching parts of the former Soviet Union had gone down almost 20% between 1960 and 1987.
The problem is that most of the climate scientists who saw the reports simply didn't believe them.
"It's an uncomfortable one," says Gerald Stanhill, who published many of these early papers and coined the phrase global dimming. "The first reaction has always been that the effect is much too big, I don't believe it and if it's true then why has nobody reported it before."
That began to change in 2001, when Stanhill and his colleague Shabtai Cohen at the Volcani Centre in Bet Dagan, Israel collected all the available evidence together and proved that, on average, records showed that the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface had gone down by between 0.23 and 0.32% each year from 1958 to 1992."
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