Posted on 12/16/2017 4:44:06 PM PST by simpson96
As the sun gets successively more blank with each day, due to lack of sunspots, it is also dimming. According to data from NASA’s Spaceweather, so far in 2017, 96 days (27%) of the days observing the sun have been without sunspots. Here is the view today from the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite:
Today at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX launched a new sensor to the International Space Station named TSIS-1. Its mission: to measure the dimming of the sun’s irradiance. It will replace the aging SORCE spacecraft. NASA SDO reports that as the sunspot cycle plunges toward its 11-year minimum, NASA satellites are tracking a decline in total solar irradiance (TSI).
Across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, the sun’s output has dropped nearly 0.1% compared to the Solar Maximum of 2012-2014. This plot shows the TSI since 1978 as observed from nine previous satellites:
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The rise and fall of the sun’s luminosity is a natural part of the solar cycle. A change of 0.1% may not sound like much, but the sun deposits a lot of energy on the Earth, approximately 1,361 watts per square meter. Summed over the globe, a 0.1% variation in this quantity exceeds all of our planet’s other energy sources (such as natural radioactivity in Earth’s core) combined. A 2013 report issued by the National Research Council (NRC), “The Effects of Solar Variability on Earth’s Climate,” spells out some of the ways the cyclic change in TSI can affect the chemistry of Earth’s upper atmosphere and possibly alter regional weather patterns, especially in the Pacific.
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Trump’s fault!
Another Ice Age right around the corner.
Ice age alert.
Women and minorities hardest hit.
Clearly we must de-industrialize and raise taxes. Also, eat the rich.
I thought it was going to expand and burn hotter and hotter until it consumed several planets before collapsing. Did someone lie to me?
Then it is essential to pump more co2 into the air to help keep some heat on the Earth.
Thats several billion years in the future.
Patience.
Obviously, this was caused by global warming.
LoL. Give it a couple billion years
There, you global warming faithful. Put that in your garbage in/garbage out super computer model pipes and smoke it!
What irony if so many of these pansies end up freezing to death.
Oh noze!
Stock up on LED lights and hand-crank generators NOW!!!
#ClimateChangeDoesntHaveToMeanWarming
#IwantToBelieve
< /sarc >
Ping.
1978 LOL!
show me the last million years
Cool!
We’re going to wish we could make enough CO2 to keep us warm if the Sun really cycles down like it has in the past.
The earth is due for an Ice Age.
I’m watching Captain Kirk in a fight to the death with a giant frog, and all you folks can talk about is a stupid extinction event.
I don’t remember 1996 and 2010 being so bad. Anyone else?
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