Sunday, January 16th, 2005, 2:24 am
Global ‘Dimming’


An item from the BBC reports on the severity of global warming, which appears to exceed past expectations.
We are all seeing rather less of the Sun, according to scientists who have been looking at five decades of sunlight measurements.
They have reached the disturbing conclusion that the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth’s surface has been gradually falling.
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That means a temperature rise of 10 degrees Celsius by 2100 could be on the cards, giving the UK a climate like that of North Africa, and rendering many parts of the world uninhabitable.