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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It would not surprise me one bit to see the beginning of the next ice age in the 30? years remaining of my life. Based on previous cycles - this latest warm period is the longest, beginning some 15,000 years ago.
I hope I’m wrong of course. Although it would finally shut up the climate change alarmists. (I wish - they will just pull out their old articles from the 1970’s explaining how global cooling is caused by pollution.)
That’s later.
It’s God eliminating global warming.
So it dims and then gets bright, sort of like an incandescent bulb burning out, except it doesn’t consume the room? I’m beginning to think they really don’t know what is going to happen and that I will lose interest in this a few billion years from now.
LOL!
I know the episode you’re watching.
[get the sulfur and charcoal, Jim!!!]
Aw, c’mon, Sargon.
Tumblin’s hilariously sarcastic description gave me the first good laugh I’ve had in weeks.
Trump and those damned SUVs.
Womyn and minorities will be hardest hit.
Who forgot to pay the electric bill?
The winters of 96 and 97 were the worst winters I ever put in working in the woods.
96 was bad and 97 was worse than 96. Snow and cold up to our..
Dont remember 2010 to 11 though.
"Dimming... we were looking for 'dimming'."
We got 42” (PA) in the Blizzard of ‘96-97, it was a MFer. Then we had the Blizzard of 2003, worse that all of them. 2010-11 were week apart, back-to-back dual 20” blizzards, that also sucked.
The eco-wackjobs will tie it back into ‘global warming’; bet on it.
BOOM! And so it begins!
There’s a little blank spot on the Sun today
It’s the same old thing as yesterday
“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”.
Lol, they are rubes.
I guess I’ll have to go out and torch off that burn pile.
That would explain why Slick Willy needed to get those Lewinskys in the Oval Office. 1996 was an anomalously cold winter.
Ha! You beat me this time!
Tinny!
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