Global Dimming – This is the reduction in the amount of sunlight that is reaching the Earth’s surface. In the serious of short videos by NOVA, called “Dimming the Sun”, this conclusion has been reached that we are experiencing Global Dimming. During research between the 1950’s and 1990’s it was found that the level of solar energy that reached Earth dropped 9% in Antarctica, 10% in the USA, 16% in the British Isles, and a whopping 30% in parts of Russia. This is a serious and troubling problem. While billions of dollars is being spent on the research of why the sun is dimming, the people must take action because researches feel that in less of a decade there will be no turning back the negative impacts emissions are creating in our world. According to the researchers anything we do to create energy generates pollution in our world. The cars we use, the energy we create, the products we use all create pollution. INDOX spend $25 billion dollars to determine if this is pollution is behind the global dimming. They compared the northern and southern parts of the Maltese Islands. Results confirmed these findings.
3 million years ago temperatures rose due to the natural gasses that were created and the oceans rose 25 feet above what we see it today. 50 billion years ago the temperature was 13 degrees F. higher than it is today and life struggled to survive. Plant life withered and dried up, agriculture was gone, drought was common and all this brought the famine. Life would be a struggle and totally unlike anything we have to experience today. If we can’t reverse the emissions that we create within the next decade we will be beyond help. We must keep our temperature from rising the 1 degree. If the oceans rose as they did before, Florida and Louisiana would disappear, and on the other side, the Amazon rainforest would be dry. Is this what we really want to happen? Global Dimming isn’t just a thought or a hypothesis, this is the real deal.
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