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Published online 19 May 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040517-7
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Look forward to a darker world
'Global dimming' may stop the Earth overheating.
It'sofficial: the world is getting darker. Scientists are now agreed that as cloud cover and particles in the atmosphere increase, the amount of radiation reaching us from the Sun is falling.
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