“Global dimming” documentary revisited
February 5th, 2007 by Zsofia
Now that the whole world is talking about climate change, watch again the 2005 BBC documentary (available on Google video for free) which adds another layer onto the discussion by looking at the phenomena of “global dimming”. The film reveals that the man-made air pollution has reduced the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth, meaning that all global warming statistics and forecasts could have been wrong. In fact, climate change could be an even greater threat than previously thought.
The death toll that global dimming may have already caused is thought to be massive. Climatologists argue that the reflection of heat has made waters in the northern hemisphere cooler. As a result, less rain has formed in key areas and crucial rainfall has failed to arrive over the Sahel in Northern Africa. The African famines of the 1970s and 1980s were caused by these failed rains, and thus Western industrialised nations are directly implicated in these tragedies. “What came out of our exhaust pipes and power stations [from Europe and North America] contributed to the deaths of a million people in Africa,” an expert says in the film.
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