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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The worst blizzards I remember in Colorado is 77 and 83. Not much after that.
That's a frog, baby. And a sex machine for all the chicks.
Not a problem, I heat with propane
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
What is your opinion of that?
She did have a pair of lips that could start a fire, if rubbed hard and fast enough, I guessing. The pizza was just a tune-up. Heh.
O.M.G.
How the hell did you get that past The Mods Almighty???
/dammit Jim, I’m an amphibian, not a welder
Burned out by Global Warming?
That’s a really beautiful graphic - thank you for posting it!
A day coming foretold in the Book of Revelation: “I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,” Revelation 6:12
As your video noted - he surmises we are 500 years past due. I thought it was more than that, but obviously they are estimates.
The problems of a cool period (or an actual ice age) would be much worse than a temperature increase.
Wow...that is astonishing.
I believe her research explains what is being observed and dose so better than other explanations.
Whenever possible and appropriate, I inform wackos that the next Ice Age is coming and there is NOTHING anyone can do to prevent it. That huge ball of heat in the sky is still going to be plenty hot, just not as much, and many parts of the Earth will be very, very cold. Decades ago we were taught that each Ice Age was about 100,000 years long, with in between warming periods of 10,000 years or so. Whatever the real cold-warm-cold pattern is, the cold is coming.
This lady sounds like she could be a physicist. What she is saying doesn't make any sense.
coffee really smarts coming outta ya nose
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