[Vo]:Re: Global dimming will be reduced

[Horace Heffner]

High oil prices are causing reduced flights and reduced fuel  
consumption by the airlines. The sudden and dramatic reduction in  
flights and simultaneous decrease in dimming in the US in the days  
subsequent to 9/11/2001 is a strong indication that it will happen  
again to the degree airline fuel consumption is reduced.  It is thus  
reasonable that the US can expect to be in for a hotter summer and  
more weather extremes, increasingly so as the airlines cut back their  
fuel consumption and go bankrupt.

It may be a wise move for the US government to bail out the airlines  
by providing fuel.  This might buy us an extra year to figure out  
some kind of solution to the energy crisis before things go beyond  
recoverable.  It may also reduce the crop failures we can already  
expect, as well as keep some airlines viable.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4171591.stm
“...the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth's surface has been  
gradually falling
... the decline in sunlight may mean that global warming is a far  
greater threat to
society than previously thought.”
More on global dimming:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/about.html
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2004/09/22/keen-dimming/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1108853,00.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/ 
dimming_prog_summary.shtml
http://www.globalissues.org/EnvIssues/GlobalWarming/globaldimming.asp
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0513-01.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2005/s1325819.htm

Best regards,

Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/