Saturday, May 11, 2019

Current Solar Cycle Among Weakest On Record

 
We do think that the sunspot cycle is an important driver for climate change.  The actual measured heat change appears small, but this is the sun and the bulk can be though of as a steady state phenomena. A tenth of one percent variance in the ocean can flood river valleys as a natural comparable.  

 It also drive variance in cosmic ray flux as well.  Thus our clouds get seeded.  What is true is that this sunspot decline is notable and the last interlude coincides with the Little Ice Age.

Because of it, i do consider Global heat content to be volatile downward and capable of delivering some nasty weather and clod winters which coincides with the reversal of previous climate highs.
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Current Solar Cycle Among Weakest On Record. Potentially Cloud-Seeding Cosmic Radiation Near Highest Level Since 1950s

5 responses to “Current Solar Cycle Among Weakest On Record. Potentially Cloud-Seeding Cosmic Radiation Near Highest Level Since 1950s”

tom0mason
Earlier it was noted that the thermosphere had shrunk and this too has possible impacts on air mass movements lower down where the weather (and climate change) affects us.
From this observation the Thermosphere Climate Index (TCI) was produced. It can be seen here at https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2018/10/26/a-new-space-weather-metric/
The TCI is an attempt to link the high altitude variation (caused by solar variation) to what happens further down where the weather happens. Note where we are now — Solar minimum and the thermosphere is cooling off.
TCI was invented by Martin Mlynczak of NASA’s Langley Research Center and colleagues. For the past 17 years they have been using the SABER instrument onboard NASA’s TIMED satellite to monitor the wattage of infrared emissions from the top of the atmosphere. Recently, they realized that these measurements could be used to summarize the state of the thermosphere in a single daily number -– the TCI.

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