Clear skies end global dimming�-�Earth’s air is cleaner, but this may worsen the greenhouse effect.
For years people used their dominion over nature to prevent forest fires, until disaster struck and people realized that what they had actually prevented was the earth’s natural street-sweeper, fire, from doing its job–burning away the underbrush.
The scientists were wrong; they got better. But isn’t it just as likely today that they are wrong–just plain wrong–about some of the absolutes like; global-warming, global-cooling, globla-dimming, global-brightening, and global-blah-dee-blah? Why sure it is. Take the following article for example.
news @ nature.com�-�Clear skies end global dimming�-�Earth’s air is cleaner, but this may worsen the greenhouse effect.
Reductions in industrial emissions in many countries, along with the use of particulate filters for car exhausts and smoke stacks, seem to have reduced the amount of dirt in the atmosphere and made the sky more transparent.
That sounds like very good news. But
