news @ nature.com - Clear skies end global dimming-Earth's air is cleaner, but this may worsen the greenhouse effect.: "The researchers argue that this trend, commonly called 'global dimming', reversed more than a decade ago, probably following the collapse of communist economies and the consequent decrease in industrial pollutants. The widespread brightening has remained unnoticed until now simply because there wasn't enough data for a statistically significant analysis, says Martin Wild, an atmospheric scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and an author on one of the reports." OK, let me get this straight. Things have improved for the environment since the Commies over there stopped belching pollutants into the atmosphere from their primitive factories and so forth. Meanwhile this has made matters WORSE for global warming and the Commies over HERE will use that to criticize capitalism and suggest that we need to introduce a Commie economy over here. That will ACTUALLY start putting more junk into the atmosphere since we all know that Commies once they get into power don't do squat except fill their pockets from the public larder. But never the less, the Earth will be saved. OK. Makes perfect sense now. I'll move to Russia pending the next cycle.