global dimming

English

Etymology

From global +‎ dimming, modelled on global warming.

Noun

global dimming (uncountable)

  1. A worldwide decline, during the last few decades, of the intensity of the sunlight reaching the Earth's surface, caused by particulate air pollution.

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