Global Dumbing

Recently I watched some of "Nova" on PBS. A piece about the global, undeniable and obvious change (downward) in moisture evaporation rates; caused by solar penetration reductions near 20%; caused by atmospheric particulate pollution levels (increased).

This circumstance is an important sideshow to the overwhelming GCC trends that are being talked about these days. But it shows a simplicity, both in the hobbyist observers who documented the trend, and the proof-of-solution that brought their separate research together.

The keynote of the show was broad documentation that weather really was milder - because the skies really were markedly cleaner all over North America and the world - in the three flightless days from September 11th - 14th 2001.

The greatest proof of global climate damage is in the simplicity of the solution.

Stopping.

The solutions to the problems we face are not complicated – The great challenges such as this are often just ethical questions. The answer to ethical issues tend to be very simple. It is the perceived and known discomforts of living with the outcome of those choices that is complicated. We know what is right and we know what is easy. The two are almost never the same. Strong men choose early and deal with it.

In my college decades I took every undergrad science class at two colleges: paleoclimatology, paleogeology, palenology (pollen), oceanography, Srat/Sed (the infamous), every kind of geology, dendrochronology, I counted pine trees (poorly), I sifted bison bones in the basement. I studied reports from underwater archaeologists who discovered fire rings thirty feet below mean sea level near the arctic circle. I heard lectures about mastodons found flash frozen in the tundra. I summarized the iridium layer that proves out the asteroid impact theory.

The teachers all said pretty much the same thing - "This climate change is real and it will happen to you: We don't think this. This is not opinion based: We know.

Now you know too."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/