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The sun is blank, NASA data shows it to be dimming
WUWT ^ | 12/15/2017 | Anthony Watts

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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TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: sun; sunspots
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To: spokeshave; Parley Baer

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.)


41 posted on 12/16/2017 5:56:36 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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42 posted on 12/16/2017 5:59:38 PM PST by tomkat
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To: rey

That’s later.


43 posted on 12/16/2017 6:02:04 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: simpson96

It’s God eliminating global warming.


44 posted on 12/16/2017 6:02:26 PM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: Kozak

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.


45 posted on 12/16/2017 6:04:18 PM PST by rey
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To: tumblindice

LOL!

I know the episode you’re watching.

[get the sulfur and charcoal, Jim!!!]


46 posted on 12/16/2017 6:06:20 PM PST by Salamander (And Ezekiel Smiles Again....)
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To: sargon; tumblindice

Aw, c’mon, Sargon.

Tumblin’s hilariously sarcastic description gave me the first good laugh I’ve had in weeks.


47 posted on 12/16/2017 6:08:05 PM PST by Salamander (And Ezekiel Smiles Again....)
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To: simpson96
Trump’s fault!

Trump and those damned SUVs.

Womyn and minorities will be hardest hit.

48 posted on 12/16/2017 6:08:11 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: simpson96

Who forgot to pay the electric bill?


49 posted on 12/16/2017 6:09:56 PM PST by kabar
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To: carriage_hill

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.


50 posted on 12/16/2017 6:12:47 PM PST by crz
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To: simpson96
"The Sun is blank."

"Dimming... we were looking for 'dimming'."

51 posted on 12/16/2017 6:14:19 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: crz

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.


52 posted on 12/16/2017 6:22:21 PM PST by Carriage Hill ( Life is simpler, when you plow around the stump.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

The eco-wackjobs will tie it back into ‘global warming’; bet on it.


53 posted on 12/16/2017 6:23:44 PM PST by Carriage Hill ( Life is simpler, when you plow around the stump.)
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To: simpson96

BOOM! And so it begins!


54 posted on 12/16/2017 6:35:25 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan from taking office.)
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To: simpson96

There’s a little blank spot on the Sun today
It’s the same old thing as yesterday


55 posted on 12/16/2017 6:44:47 PM PST by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: tumblindice

“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.


56 posted on 12/16/2017 6:44:57 PM PST by 82nd Bragger (Count to four except when in a helicopter)
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To: I want the USA back

I guess I’ll have to go out and torch off that burn pile.


57 posted on 12/16/2017 6:46:09 PM PST by Noumenon (Irony: Those who tell us we don't need a border wall whIle living in gated communities.)
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To: carriage_hill

That would explain why Slick Willy needed to get those Lewinskys in the Oval Office. 1996 was an anomalously cold winter.


58 posted on 12/16/2017 6:48:49 PM PST by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: sargon

Gorn is such a woody word! Not tinny at all!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi2vMNOTac8


59 posted on 12/16/2017 7:11:12 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: dfwgator

Ha! You beat me this time!

Tinny!


60 posted on 12/16/2017 7:12:18 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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