http://blog.longnow.org/2007/09/06/global-dimming/ The Official Weblog of The Long Now Foundation and Friends Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:27:23 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/09/06/global-dimming/comment-page-1/#comment-2455 Ville Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:59:24 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/09/06/global-dimming/#comment-2455 Didn't your mom tell you not to trust random tv programs? The documentary is discussed on realclimate at http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/01/global-dimming/ (or at http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/04/global-dimming-and-climate-models/ if you actually saw the edited US version). Summing up the detailed article a bit (or my understanding of it): the documentary in question is alarmist, exaggerates things and does not reflect the general understanding of the effect of aerosols on climate change. Didn’t your mom tell you not to trust random tv programs? The documentary is discussed on realclimate at http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/01/global-dimming/ (or at http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/04/global-dimming-and-climate-models/ if you actually saw the edited US version). Summing up the detailed article a bit (or my understanding of it): the documentary in question is alarmist, exaggerates things and does not reflect the general understanding of the effect of aerosols on climate change.

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