Comments on: Sunlight dimmed; no one noticed http://jaystream.com/2009/04/01/sunlight-dimmed-no-one-noticed/ Common sense analysis of anything below the jet stream. Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:05:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jay http://jaystream.com/2009/04/01/sunlight-dimmed-no-one-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Jay Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:05:26 +0000 http://jaystream.com/?p=799#comment-15 Good points. Last summer we visited the Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, and they were forecasting that sunspot activity would pick up soon. In early January, a couple sunspots occurred and NOAA declared that the next sunspot cycle was underway: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22508073/ That now appears a bit premature. Looks like forecasting astronomy and forecasting meteorology both have limitations. Good points.
Last summer we visited the Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, and they were forecasting that sunspot activity would pick up soon. In early January, a couple sunspots occurred and NOAA declared that the next sunspot cycle was underway:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22508073/
That now appears a bit premature.
Looks like forecasting astronomy and forecasting meteorology both have limitations.

]]> By: Jeff Ray http://jaystream.com/2009/04/01/sunlight-dimmed-no-one-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Jeff Ray Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:34:15 +0000 http://jaystream.com/?p=799#comment-14 There's been a general dimming of the sun over the last 30 years believed to be from the increased presence in the atmosphere of particulate matter: (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/) but an overall increase of solar radiation from the sun itself: (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/sun_output_030320.html) How this has affected the global warming trend is rife with conflict. There’s been a general dimming of the sun over the last 30 years believed to be from the increased presence in the atmosphere of particulate matter:

(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/)

but an overall increase of solar radiation from the sun itself:
(http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/sun_output_030320.html)

How this has affected the global warming trend is rife with conflict.

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