And it was timely too, because I just finished downloading a quarter million data points from the National Solar Radiation Data Base. They have been collecting data from 239 sites around the nation since before 1960. I've been analyzing the data on Excel and found something very interesting in their data. Over the last 30 years the amount of both direct and diffuse solar radiation reaching the earth, has declined about 10%.
Since solar radiation is the single biggest input to the climatologically algorithm, that's really a stunning 30 year change with major implications about climate change! This change is so large that I'm wondering whether the data they collected is real or whether the instrumentation was faulty or whether the data was "modeled" in some undisclosed manner. I've read both of the DOE manuals on how this data was collected and how it is applied, and I've found nothing that can explain so large a change.
--Boot Hill
Damn!
a quarter million data points.....
Glaciers are growing around the world, including the United States