dimming

• “Scientists are discovering that global dimming is responsible for droughts in several parts of the world, including sub-Saharan Africa.”

  The Huffington Post: Amarnath Amarasingam: What Is Global Dimming?

• “Star dimming is for the birds, we are so out of here.”

  Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Vacuum Diagrams - Stephen Baxter

• “Philips 'new Eco TV line has built-in dimming features that are designed to save power without compromising picture quality.”

  Philips, Sony roll out power-saving LCD TVs

• “The dimming is a nearly worlwide effect, and our government invested 25 million dollars into a study in the Pacific comparing the dimming in the north under the Asian brown cloud with the south where the air is still clean.”

  Think Progress » FACT CHECK: National Review’s Cover Story Distorts Facts On Global Warming

• “His very first meeting with the King of Bulgaria showed a certain dimming of the monarchic tradition, a certain muting of martial music as it had been heard through history.”

  Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part V

• “Global dimming is the source of George Will’s specious claim that scientists were warning us about global cooling in the 1970s.”

  Think Progress » Jonah Goldberg: Concerns About Climate Change Are ‘Millenarian Battiness’

• “Global dimming occurs when the sun's energy is partially blocked largely by man-made particulates and then reflected back into space.”

  Joe Peyronnin: Global Dimming

• “That "dimming" effect could well make it more difficult for Obama and Democrats to overcome historical trends -- and more recent polling -- that make clear that young people are simply not as interested in midterm elections as presidential ones.”

  The Washington Post: Barack Obama and the difficulty of energizing young voters

• “They often push for a change in human behaviors, such as dimming lights along beaches at night to avoid disorienting them.”

  The Huffington Post: Gulf Oil Spill: 70,000 Turtle Eggs To Be Moved From Oily Beaches In Massive Relocation Effort

• “UC San Diego climate scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan and his colleague Y. Feng believe that this "dimming" or "surface cooling effect" has actually "masked a significant fraction" of the overall warming effect of already emitted greenhouse gases.”

  Newsweek: The Most Endangered Glaciers

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