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Ahhhh... NO!I am working on a phone through a slow connection and am unable to post graphics. But I suggest anyone worried about this "nosedive" to Google SORCE TSI and have a look at the long term data posted right next to the cherrypicked crap Billy Bob has found. There have been a dozen such "nosedives" in the 11 year life of the SORCE spacecraft, many of them several TIMES as deep as the current dip, they all recovered immediately and none had ANY effect on temperature
Just when you thought it couldn't get stranger, Solar Irradiance has dropped to 1360.0 W/m^2. a full drop of 1.4 W/m^2 in just three days.
Confirmed with the SOURCE project that it is not a sensor malfunction and that it is a massive drop that is continuing to drop. The drop in TSI is substantial when you consider that just a 1.5W/m^2 will result in a 2 to 4 deg C drop on earth in rather short order.. They are hopeful that this is a short term drop and when the sun spots return to the face so will TSI.
These types of drops have been very rarely recorded with major sun spots and if they persist long enough it could result in an ice age.
This drop is different than previous ones, which were much smaller and were very short in duration...
Going to be watching this one with great interest... How low will it go and for how long..??
Context of where it's at..
Cycle 23 and 24 are still a dead-on for a Solar Minimum.. The monthly variations are higher near cycle peaks. So that TSI number is not as bad as it looks.
But we are near solar siesta time Amigos.. 'Bout to get a dose of climate reality -- I think.. The big Agriculture folks are starting to take this seriously.. Gonna see the Futures markets start to price this in...
Yep!
This is getting a whole lot of attention from a whole lot of people. (its lost on the MSM) One of the folks from the French solar team was asking about what to do if they loose one month of growing season and what foods could they potentially produce. There is some real concern about what is occurring.
If this is a step down in solar output and a long term event it will most certainly be a rude awakening..for a lot of people.
So, it appears Billy is not going to explain why the earth didn't freeze or even stop warming during any of the many previous little blips like this. He's just doing that "deny the real evidence exists" thing which has earned Deniers their name.
Deniers have been predicting this imminent ice age for 40 years now. Instead, it just keeps warming strongly. But like all the other doomsday cults, the deniers persist. IceAgeJesus is returning soon, and the heretics will be sorry they doubted.
Now what would happen if we introduced a good sized volcanic eruption?
How many times have we been below 1360? Well, by YOUR source, since 2004, a dozen times.
How many times have we been below 1360? Well, by YOUR source, since 2004, a dozen times.
Not surprisingly... Due to your Can'tReadaGraph syndrome, you picked the wrong time frame and context to see what the fuss is all about. Also probably need to switch variables and look at the radio astronomy and other direct activity measurements like sunspot counts.
But if THAT means something to you -- then Bless your Little Heart..
Clue --- you're not likely to see any real change in the TSI baseline until you are way INTO the event.. And nobody really knows if all the variance in TSI is even predictive of a solar minimum. We've not MEASURED one ever before..
Where did you ever get the idea that "the Earth didn't stop warming during previous Solar Minimums"??
And exactly WHO is confusing a Solar Minimum to an Ice Age?
You're wasting time here Squidward..
Where did you ever get the idea that "the Earth didn't stop warming during previous Solar Minimums"??
"Solar Minimums"? I thought we we talking about a little downward blip caused by a large sunspot rotating into an earth-facing position. Even the people at WUWT say that's what's happening.
And exactly WHO is confusing a Solar Minimum to an Ice Age?
Obviously you are, being you're the only one here confusing a short-term downward blip with a "solar minimum".
You're wasting time here Squidward..
Indeed. If you fail this hard at the basics, there's not much point in discussing it with you.
SORCE is going to show TSI back up next week, as the large sunspot rotates away from earth-facing. (Their current published data only goes up to Apr. 14.) Billy and the other deniers, after looking like morons, will simply pretend this episode of stupidity never happened, which will allow them to move on to some new stupidity.