Product Details

• Directors: Duncan Copp
• Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Public Broadcasting System
• DVD Release Date: June 27, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000SLOMU0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,524 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Thanks in part to the success of Al Gore's AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, global warming is a hot issue in scientific discussion. But this documentary focuses on another important matter: global dimming. Over the last several decades, the amount of sunlight arriving at the earth's surface has actually decreased. NOVA's DIMMING THE SUN explores the effects of global dimming and its relationship to pollution and global warming.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Scarier than An Inconvenient Truth, September 4, 2007

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Nancy H. Rathke "oldmoo" (Madison, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dimming The Sun (DVD)

This is the most alarming thing I have seen yet on global warming, and it is entirely plausible. If you think global warming will result in beachfront property in Las Vegas and shifting of all belts of flora and fauna more comfortably northward, you haven't seen anything yet! I always anticipated that researchers would soon start to connect the dots and predict large, really large, continent-wide effects in all areas of life, and here they have done it. Nothing will be the same for our world unless we start right now to change our ways. It is NOT just temperature rise--it is so much more, and it probably spells doom.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars global dimming vs global warming, August 6, 2008

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golgotha.gov (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dimming The Sun (DVD)

DIMMING THE SUN (2006)
directed by Peter Chinn, Duncan Copp and Caroline Penry-Davey

This is a NOVA program that examines the phenomenon of "global dimming". To oversimplify the theory, when pollutants are released into the air, tiny particulates (such as sulphates, nitrates etc.) float up into the clouds. New clouds develop around these tiny particles and actually reflect the sun's light away from the earth's surface. You may be wondering how this is possible since we hear so much about the rise in the earth's temperature. Well not only do the dimming effects keep some light from reaching the earth, it also "traps" some of the earth's heat from being lost into the atmosphere. Under this theory, global warming is actually worse than previously predicted, as we haven't truly experienced the extent of it's effects yet due to the dimming effect.

After September 11, 2001, there was a brief time period where no planes flew over the United States. A climate scientist named David Travis studied the effects that this had on temperature. He found that the temperature *rose* during the day. This produces an interesting problem: if emissions are uniformly reduced, we may seriously accelerate the effects of global warming, but if we continue at the current rate of emissions, we will be exposed to unhealthy chemicals and still have to deal with the earth's own "re-radiation".

Highly recommended, especially for people who believe that there are simple solutions to the climate change issue.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars relevant to continued existence, August 20, 2008

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snooder dog "snooder" (hiddenite, nc) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Dimming The Sun (DVD)

the is the only place where the layman can hear the full truth about the impending carastrophe. i for one will expose everyone i can to this film and i beg others to do the same.

its obviously too late, but we must try.