Lack of sunspots to bring record cold, warns NASA scientist

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The sky is falling.

“The sun is entering one of the deepest Solar Minima of the Space Age,” wrote Dr Tony Phillips just six weeks ago, on 27 Sep 2018.

Sunspots have been absent for most of 2018 and Earth’s upper atmosphere is responding, says Phillips, editor of spaceweather.com.

Data from NASA’s TIMED satellite show that the thermosphere (the uppermost layer of air around our planet) is cooling and shrinking, literally decreasing the radius of the atmosphere.
To help track the latest developments, Martin Mlynczak of NASA’s Langley Research Center and his colleagues recently introduced the “Thermosphere Climate Index.”

The Thermosphere Climate Index (TCI) tells how much heat nitric oxide (NO) molecules are dumping into space. During Solar Maximum, TCI is high (meaning “Hot”); during Solar Minimum, it is low (meaning “Cold”).

“Right now, it is very low indeed … 10 times smaller than we see during more active phases of the solar cycle,” says Mlynczak

Record cold in a matter of months

“If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold,” says Mlynczak. “We’re not there quite yet, but it could happen in a matter of months.”
 
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A smaller dia atmosphere would translate to an increase in air pressure on a global scale. You forgot the right chart. Would that not increase the efficiency of the transfer of heat from the surface of the earth rather than hinder it?? Those are pretty short for covering a large swath of the past.



 
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The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit (0.9 degrees Celsius) since the late 19th century, a change driven largely by increased carbon dioxide and other human-made emissions into the atmosphere.4 Most of the warming occurred in the past 35 years, with the five warmest years on record taking place since 2010. Not only was 2016 the warmest year on record, but eight of the 12 months that make up the year — from January through September, with the exception of June — were the warmest on record for those respective months. 5
 
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Hoid said:
https://climate.nasa.gov/

The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit (0.9 degrees Celsius) since the late 19th century, a change driven largely by increased carbon dioxide and other human-made emissions into the atmosphere.4 Most of the warming occurred in the past 35 years, with the five warmest years on record taking place since 2010. Not only was 2016 the warmest year on record, but eight of the 12 months that make up the year — from January through September, with the exception of June — were the warmest on record for those respective months. 5
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Figures lie and liars figure . But hey turn over your wealth and freedom to the benevolent government of prima Donna the prancing PM . He will save you. .
 
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Hoid said:
https://climate.nasa.gov/
The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit (0.9 degrees Celsius) since the late 19th century, a change driven largely by increased carbon dioxide and other human-made emissions into the atmosphere.4 Most of the warming occurred in the past 35 years, with the five warmest years on record taking place since 2010. Not only was 2016 the warmest year on record, but eight of the 12 months that make up the year — from January through September, with the exception of June — were the warmest on record for those respective months. 5
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It never warmed after the Dalton and Maunder Minimums? Was it supposed to stay cold?



The Dalton Minimum was a period of low sunspot count, representing low solar activity, named after the English meteorologist John Dalton, lasting from about 1790 to 1830[1] or 1796 to 1820,[2] corresponding to the period solar cycle 4 to solar cycle 7.

Temperature Edit
Like the Maunder Minimum and Spörer Minimum, the Dalton Minimum coincided with a period of lower-than-average global temperatures. During that period, there was a variation of temperature of about 1 °C in Germany.[3]
 
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Hoid said:
https://climate.nasa.gov/
The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit (0.9 degrees Celsius) since the late 19th century, a change driven largely by increased carbon dioxide and other human-made emissions into the atmosphere.4 Most of the warming occurred in the past 35 years, with the five warmest years on record taking place since 2010. Not only was 2016 the warmest year on record, but eight of the 12 months that make up the year — from January through September, with the exception of June — were the warmest on record for those respective months. 5
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Hoid said:
https://climate.nasa.gov/

The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit (0.9 degrees Celsius) since the late 19th century, a change driven largely by increased carbon dioxide and other human-made emissions into the atmosphere.4 Most of the warming occurred in the past 35 years, with the five warmest years on record taking place since 2010. Not only was 2016 the warmest year on record, but eight of the 12 months that make up the year — from January through September, with the exception of June — were the warmest on record for those respective months. 5
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Key words: "On record". Doesn't mean it hasn't been warmer prior to and, of course, as we all know it has.
 
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When they say record breaking they are talking about the pieces of the record that the data was on.
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There is enough bullshit being spread around to take care of that. It would bother me less if they weren't charging an arm and a leg for each version of what always tuns out to be bogus science. Maybe time to retire our current owners.
 
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Hoid said:
https://climate.nasa.gov/

The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit (0.9 degrees Celsius) since the late 19th century, a change driven largely by increased carbon dioxide and other human-made emissions into the atmosphere.4 Most of the warming occurred in the past 35 years, with the five warmest years on record taking place since 2010. Not only was 2016 the warmest year on record, but eight of the 12 months that make up the year — from January through September, with the exception of June — were the warmest on record for those respective months. 5
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From what I've read there is a correlation between global temperature averages & CO2 levels, but the CO2 levels raise after the temperature raises and not the other way around. CO2 levels raise as a consequence of increased temperatures, not temperatures increased as a consequence of increased CO2 levels.
You cite this:

But not this:
 
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The "record" starts in 1951 and uses 1951-1980 as the mean temperature. Officially "AGW" kicked off in 1978.

Global mean surface temperature change from 1880 to 2017, relative to the 1951–1980 mean. The 1951-1980 mean is 14.2 °C (57.6 °F).[1] The black line is the global annual mean and the red line is the five-year lowess smooth. The blue uncertainty bars show a 95% confidence limit. Source: NASA GISS.​

Even though AGW kicked off in 78 the 1880s constantly come up as the start of AGW as found at this link:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_temperature_record#Warmest_periods
 
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If you look at the death tolls ( man kills man en mass ) over the last two hundred years, It becomes clearly obvious that there are some people who enjoy and benefit from that happening to everyone else.
 
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