Re: Solar Activity Reaches 1,000 Year Peak

On 10 avr, 07:57, El Castor <NotAny...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sunspots reaching 1,000-year high


Look at the data yourself

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Solar.Constant.Variations.1978-2003.jpg

and get some scientific literacy, don't depend on the popular media.

"Now, during the time period of 1978 through 1998, the mean value of
daily averages for the solar constant from six different satellites
yielded a solar constant of 1366.1 Wm2. This same source offers a
minimum - maximum range of the readings for 1363 - 1368 Wm2.
Adjustments yielded "a solar constant" calculated to 1366.22 Wm2."

Nothing is changing on the sun end of things. What is constantly
changing are the temperatures in various regions, the CO2
and water contents, the amount of energy reflected by clouds, the
amount reaching the the various surfaces, the amount relfected there,
And tha amount finally absorbed. The latter differs greatly for
various land types, the ocean, the snow and the ice.

All these things vary, but the sun's is varying on a small
and constant way, itwaxes and wanes slightly with the sunspot cycle.
But it is like the "old man river", and just keeps shinning along
in the same way, heating up slowly on the billion year scale, but
not on the yealy scale.

Study, Jeff, this is more complicated than you apparently know.



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