Dimming hopes 1

Let's get one thing straight: Grist was into global dimming before global dimming was cool.

Now: A BBC documentary is pushing, with great hype (not to say hysterics), the notion that efforts to reduce fossil fuel use will reverse global dimming and thus -- irony! -- accelerate global warming. I have already grumpily blogged this once. Now the folks over at RealClimate, about whose site I use the adjective "indispensable" with numbing regularity, have addressed the subject, saying, in effect, Slow down, cowboy! We don't really know that much about dimming.

Now that some perspective has been added to the hype, I'm certain that wingnuts will stop forwarding around the new dimming stories as proof that driving SUVs is a virtue. Right?

Update [2005-1-21 15:17:39 by Dave Roberts]: More from RealClimate.

David Roberts is staff writer for Grist. You can follow his Twitter feed at twitter.com/drgrist.

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  1. jdhlax Posted 12:02 pm
    18 Jan 2005

    Global Warming Is NOT The IssueAlmost 20 years ago, some of us environmental activitsts were discussing whether and how to take on global warming and ozone issues.  I said then that those were bad issues to take on if framed in that manner, because the industries would claim that the Earth's temperature and ozone level naturally fluctuated over a period of time too large for humans to measure.  (Sure enough, that's exactly what they said.)  Instead, I advocated, and still advocate, that we oppose all air pollution as being immoral.  I think this would be a much better strategy than arguing over scientific technicalities about which no one is certain.

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