Comments on: Getting Creative About the Environment http://www.creativedc.org/2006/07/getting-creative-about-environment/ Showcasing and inspiring creative living in Washington, DC Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:46:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: John A http://www.creativedc.org/2006/07/getting-creative-about-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-32 John A Fri, 07 Jul 2006 22:15:00 +0000 http://dev.creativedc.org/?p=21#comment-32 Haven't seen the movie yet (waiting for video), so I don't know if the Gorester addresses this one or not, but what freaks me out this week is actually global dimming. (Which your soon-to-be-former employer had an excellent Nova special on last year.)<br/>Read up here:<br/><br/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming<br/><br/>The gist is that our airborne pollutants have actually been masking the effects of global warming for years, by blocking the amount of sunlight that actually enters the atmosphere. Removing the airborne pollutants (like switching from leaded to unleaded gas for example) is removing that barrier, so global warming speeds up. It's been suspected for a while, but the lack of air traffic following 9/11 allowed for the first real emperical data collection. In effect, things like the Clean Air act and other non-Greenhouse specific cleanup efforts are actually killing us faster. Haven’t seen the movie yet (waiting for video), so I don’t know if the Gorester addresses this one or not, but what freaks me out this week is actually global dimming. (Which your soon-to-be-former employer had an excellent Nova special on last year.)
Read up here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming

The gist is that our airborne pollutants have actually been masking the effects of global warming for years, by blocking the amount of sunlight that actually enters the atmosphere. Removing the airborne pollutants (like switching from leaded to unleaded gas for example) is removing that barrier, so global warming speeds up. It’s been suspected for a while, but the lack of air traffic following 9/11 allowed for the first real emperical data collection. In effect, things like the Clean Air act and other non-Greenhouse specific cleanup efforts are actually killing us faster.

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