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...NARRATOR: For decades, (click here) nobody took much notice of the pan evaporation measurements. But in the 1990s scientists spotted something very strange, the rate of evaporation was falling.
PROF GRAHAM FARQUHAR: There is a paradox here about the fact that the pan evaporation rate's going down, an apparent paradox, but the global temperature's going up.
NARRATOR: This was a puzzle. Most scientists reasoned that like a pan on the stove, turning up the global temperature should increase the rate at which water evaporated. But Roderick and Farquhar did some calculations and worked out that temperature was not the most important factor in pan evaporation.
DR MICHAEL RODERICK: Well it turns out in fact that the key things for pan evaporation are the sunlight, the humidity and the wind. But really the sunlight is a really dominant term there.
NARRATOR: They found that it was the energy of the photons hitting the surface, the actual sunlight, that kicks the water molecules out of the pan and into the atmosphere. And so they too reached an extraordinary conclusion.
DR MICHAEL RODERICK: You know, if the pan is going down then maybe that's the sunlight going down.
NARRATOR: Was the fall in pan evaporation in fact evidence of Global Dimming? Somewhere in the journals, they felt, must be the hard numbers that could tie the two things together.
DR MICHAEL RODERICK: And then one day, just by accident, I had to go to the library to get an article out Nature. As you do, I couldn't find it. And I just glanced at a, through the thing, and there was an article called Evaporation Losing Its Strength. Which reported a decline in pan evaporation over Russia, United States and Eastern Europe. And there in the, in the measurements, they said that the, the pans had on average, evaporated about a hundred millimetres less of water in the last thirty years....
...DR PETER COX: One of the real driving forces is that you leave an environment that is comfortable for your children. And we carry on going the way we're going, we're not going to do that, we're going to leave an environment that's much worse than the environment we lived in; and it will be down to what we did when we were using that environment, and that would be, um, tragic really, if that happened.
In this study published in the BBC the Wisconsin findings are noted, HOWEVER, there is a greater understanding of the effect of "Global Dimming."
Global Dimming is responsible for slowed water vapor production on Earth. Global Dimming is occurring due to contrails that prevent sun photons from reaching water sources to allow evaporation of vital water in the troposphere. How is Earth going to achieve normal balance if there is continued and profound Global Dimming?
Europe has the most comprehensive view of the world. It's beekeepers found the reason their hives were crashing when no one else could or should I say, no one else would.
Yes, indeed. Europe has the most drag on profits of Wall Street. Europe just doesn't seem to get it. Take fracking for instance. The USA understands how important employment rates are to politics and looks the other way when water is polluted. The Great Dick Cheney and his energy committee said to the people of the USA, "Get Bottled Water."
