global dimming
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
global + dimming, modelled on global warming.
Noun[edit]
- A worldwide decline, during the last few decades, of the intensity of the sunlight reaching the Earth's surface, caused by particulate air pollution. Such dimming has a dampening effect on global warming.
Translations[edit]
decline of the intensity of the sunlight reaching the Earth's surface
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