The story on Wegman & Co has not ended and from perusing appears to be, how shall we say... well read for yourself... kettles calling the size where meals for whole tribes could be cooked in.

http://deepclimate.org/2010/04/22/wegman-and-...more-dubious-scholarship/

Well, according Judith Lean, one of the TSI paper publishers, one DA in past has used to produce a TSI reconstructed chart, it is 0.24 Watts / Square meter difference for us on the ground reaching us at a light travel time distance of about 8 minutes delay [sun to earth]... for perspective, that's less than 0.1% variation. Anyone believing ice will melt any faster when put under a lamp that's not giving off 1364.7 but 1365.9 watts/m^2 at TOA?

Darn, you got me going again, why not, here's that splendorous Total Solar Irradiation chart again with latest monthly sunspot number. Anyone seeing the declining trend since the 50's on the blue wiggle? Maybe a global conspiracy not to count those on the far side?



PS: SORCE reports 4.7 watts less, a well published difference versus VIRGO and 5.1 watts less than ACRIM III.

The Habital Planet. I'm reading, reading reading and digesting, so more on this later, but first a striking image where already 3 elements in earth's chemistry have gone off the safe-zone scale:

1. Biodiversity Loss [Yes another consequence of that UK judges ruling that we're changing land use such that the Kilimanjaro is loosing snow cover]
2. Nitrogen cycle [Our atmosphere is about ~78% composed of this element, in gassy form]. We're pumping allot onto/into the agri-lands and much ends up not in the crops... http://www.idswater.com/Common/Paper/Paper_10...trogen%20Fertilizers1.htm
3. Climate Change. Now when it rains it tends to pour rather than drizzle or as an Inuit observation was: When it's rains 1 inch spread over the month of July, my garden is fine, when it pours an 1 inch on July 1, and no more, my garden burns. It's what we see more and more, hence why irrigation needs are increasing... but where's the storage capacity gone/going, when we are so expertly flushing of immediate excess back to the oceans? Deminishing glaciers and snow cover loss to supply water in the warm season is not getting any better, or?



We're living in a fishbowl... can you picture that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwOcRJYU3F8

PS: Warning for DA: There's mention of Ammonia!

Oh MY GOD!!

Sure enough she will have to with that deep sea oil well [4500 feet down] an estimated 160,000 liters [~40,000 gallons] of oil daily off in the Mexican Gulf, so has the US coast guard observed in latest report. Maybe it's the diesel coming out, but crude and diesel have different obvious appearances.

edit: of course, when it's about oil, the Houston Chronicle has something on it:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6974847.html