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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global warming is ruining the sun.
I must write my congressman.
Weather-wise?
Nothing unusual Those years.
Russians!
I can’t remember where I saw it, but 10 years ago there was a list of things we were personally supposed to do to combat “global warming”. I remember at the time asking that if they were wrong and it was impending “global cooling”....were we to do the exact opposite for each of the things on the combat list. My comment was ignored at the time.
Absolutely! /s
And they’ve never figured out that batteries come from mining.
It’s the coming of the Fimbul Winter
Be patient.
All the CO2 in earth’s atmosphere is messing up the sun. /s
Bttt
The dip in the graph is mimicking those and other years. As long as it doesn’t drop 2-3x further, we’ll be ok.
The Gorn is a lizard—it's a reptile, not an amphibian...
Notice the overall trend is downward.
Skip to the 2:18 mark in this video to see a comparison of luminosity of the sun over the course of 6 - 8 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWIalQd9iI0
Stupid Sun.
"Gorn. Gorn -- it's got a sort of *woody* quality about it. Gorn. Go-o-orn. Much better than 'newspaper' or 'litter bin'."
The sun is going out. It is sick and tired of not getting any credit for warming our planet!
I don’t blame it.
Breed cows. It’s our only hope.
ML/NJ
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