The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals (phys.org)

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The Earth became darker from 2001 to 2024, meaning it reflects less sunlight, a research team reports in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The development is more pronounced in the northern hemisphere than in the southern half of the planet, the study published on Monday revealed.

A team led by Norman Loeb from NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton in the U.S. state of Virginia discovered this previously unknown inequality between the northern and southern hemispheres after analyzing satellite data.

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[-] rljkeimig@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago

It must be all of the solar panels absorbing the sun's rays, we had better get rid of all of them just in case, and we may as well throw in wind turbines as well for good measure.

[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 14 points 5 days ago

We can just reverse wind turbines to make fans out of them and cool off.

[-] 0ops@piefed.zip 3 points 5 days ago

WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOODNIGHT!

[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

Chill, Morbo. Geez, what a tense news monster.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

Careful, some loon might think that makes sense and set national policy based on that tidbit.

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