When pollution rises, sunlight fades In a nutshell After decades of “global dimming” caused by pollution, surface sunlight ...

Climate researcher James Hansen estimates that "global dimming" is cooling our planet by more than a degree Celsius (1.8°F) and fears that as we cut back on pollution, global warming may escalate ...

Solar radiative energy declined in large parts of the world from the 1950s to the 1980s - known as "global dimming" - before a partial recovery since.