Global Dimming
2005 · 49 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 35 VOTES
Overview
This may be the one of the most important Horizon films of recent years. Climate scientists have just discovered a phenomenon that threatens to disrupt our world. It may already have contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands through drought and famine. Unchecked, it will strike again. The good news is that there is a cure. The bad news is that the cure may be worse than the disease. If they are right, then in tackling the one problem, we may unleash a climate catastrophe on our planet. This is a film about stark choices and about the dawning realisation that all our predictions about the world's climate may be completely wrong. At its heart is something that scientists are calling "global dimming".
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00:00:04 This is a film that demands action.
00:02:40 one of the tiny positives that may have come out of an opportunity
00:04:46 because that is the factor that basically
00:06:50 over the Bavarian Alps too.
00:09:02 As the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases we emit
00:10:44 The long-term measurements of pan evaporation
00:12:39 then maybe that's the sunlight going down.
00:14:30 It was the same with Europe and the USA.
00:16:55 It was here that Veerabhadran Ramanathan
00:18:51 enjoys clean air coming all the way from Antarctica.
00:21:17 These only form when water vapour in the atmosphere
00:23:36 consisting of soot, sulphates, nitrates, ash and what have you
00:26:06 For most of the year it is completely dry.
00:28:02 That heat was needed to draw the tropical rains northwards.
00:30:18 There is no choice here we have to cut down air pollution
00:32:33 Though each individual contrail seems small
00:34:23 Travis was not looking just at temperature -
00:35:56 in the last 30 years.
00:38:01 And in France people died by the thousand.
00:39:31 And that's not all.
00:41:01 with irreversible damage just 25 years away.
00:42:56 Cox calculates that in just a century
00:45:08 which store a lot of methane at the bottom of the ocean
00:46:59 the radiative balance of the planet