Positive Effect of Global Dimming
Since Global Dimming is Environmental issues, we can easily assume it will provide bad affect to earth;
however, Global Dimming has good effect considering global warming issues.
The point is that Global Dimming covers the drastic effects of Global Warming. As you can see in the definition part of "What is Global Dimming?" the Global Dimming prevents the Short Wave radiation going through the cloud and coming toward the Earth surface and it makes the earth dimmer. That is, the amounts of solar energy reaching to land are reduced as well as light, and it causes to make earth cooler.
It is predicted by the climate change models that 5 degrees increase in temperature over the next century, which is already considered extremely grave. However, global dimming has led to an underestimation of the power of global warming.
This graph shows that temperature change over global land surfaces from 1958 to 2002 with respect to 1960. While the temperature rise during the period of solar dimming from the 1960s to the 1980s is moderate, temperature rise is more rapid in the last two decades where dimming was no more present. (WILD ET AL, 2007)
This aspect of global dimming has led to fears that global dimming has been hiding the true power of global warming.
