Global 'sunscreen' has likely thinned, report NASA scientists

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Sun-blocking aerosols around the world steadily declined (red line) since the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo according to satellite estimates. The decline appears to have brought an end to the global dimming earlier in the century. Credit: Michael M ...
Sun-blocking aerosols around the world steadily declined (red line) since the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, according to satellite estimates. The decline appears to have brought an end to the "global dimming" earlier in the century. Credit: Michael Mishchenko, NASA
A new NASA study has found that an important counter-balance to the warming of our planet by greenhouse gases – sunlight blocked by dust, pollution and other aerosol particles – appears to have lost ground.


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