What is the relationship between global warming and global dimming?
Kwaala Shallfanda asked:
I Iam an enviromentalist and Iam concerned with global warming.Of recent there has also been discussions on global dimminng.How does one impact on the other.
June 7th, 2009 at 8:40 am
they are both caused by polution
June 8th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Well as a lay man, what I understand is that the carbon in the air does not let sunlight escape once it enters the atmosphere. So, because carbon holds on to sunlight, it increases the atmospheric temperature. At the same time too much carbon blocks sunlight, and so it brings about a dimming phenomena.
June 9th, 2009 at 2:27 am
They are both natural occurances and should give you no alarm. Stop listening to Al Gore, he’s just in it for the fame sweetie!!