Firstly the, so called, transistor effect explaining the small energetic fluctuations in the sun causing amplified effects on the Earth isn’t a problem for the Plasma Model. The only factor missing from the equation is electric current.

So Larry is correct in his analogy with a cloud chamber in which, according to Wiki, alpha and beta particles, at high energy, collide with water vapour in a closed system to produce “clouds”. (Google it).

Alpha and Beta particles are protons (electrically positively charged particles) and Beta particles, electrons (or electrically negatively charged particles), colliding with water molecules form clouds. These are usually as electricity by the morons but as cosmic rays by the enlightened.

As cloud cover, according to Roy Spencer in a recent post, covers 70% of the Earth at any point in time, means that the Earth is continually receiving, or sending out alpa and beta particles that interact with suspended water molecules (water vapour) to produce clouds.

In the Plasma Model terminology, this is restated “As cloud cover, according to Roy Spencer in a recent post, covers 70% of the Earth at any point in time, means that the Earth is continually receiving, or sending out electric currents that interact with suspended water molecules (water vapour) to produce clouds.”

The Earth also has a quiescent electric potential of 100 volts per vertical meter – which means that there is a significant electric potential between the Earth’s surface, and the ionosphere, between which electric currents flow, in both directions one might add. We do not see these currents under normal circumstances because they flow under the conditions of dark current mode plasma. When energy levels rise electric currents in plasma jump to glow mode (like the fluro tubes or the Earth’s Aurora) and when energy levels rise further, jump to arc mode (lightining and electric discharges that emit X rays and other high energy radiation).

The TSI as measured is simply the measurement of an effect of an underlying unrecognized process powering the Sun. The Sun is thought to be powered by a solar fusion engine (in science you cannot explain observations with unproven physical processes) but such a mechanism cannot produce sun-spots, nor cannot it show modulation of energy production. After all no one has shown experimentally that an uncontrolled, let alone a controlled, fusion reaction is possible, and nuclear reactions do not modulate by themselves, according to the standard theory.

The Sun also has an inconvenient thermal gradient (or profile) along which it actually gets hotter the further away from the Sun you go. This is impossible for the fusion reactor model, and is much like asserting that you get warmer the further away away from a fire you move. The Earth has a similar temperature profile, but that is no mystery since the Earth gets its energy externally.

So the Sun.

Minor fluctuations in the solar TSI are simply measurements of some larger, hitherto invisible, effect which the Plasma Model understands as electric currents of solar and galactic magnitudes, mostly operating in dark plasma mode, and hence “invisible”. (The unknown, unknowns Bob Foster guessed at in a previous thread).

Svenmark’s model, based on a the explanation of cosmic rays ionising water molecules to form clouds etc, (the Plasma Model) is simpler than a competing one not permitted to use electricity as a physical force. Hence Meehl et al need to resort to complex, invariably ad hoc, processes to explain their observations.

It’s basically asking mechanics to explain the workings of an Apple Mac, or HP PC, using only a hammer, nails, and wires.

Ask an electrical engineer and knowing what electricity does, he would come up with a simpler explanation, the Plasma Model.

There is one interesting point to be made – that of the transistor effect associated with the Sun and Earth.

Physicist Wallace Thornhill coined this a couple of years back (http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=aapprbh6)

‘It has been shown that the Sun’s constancy of light and heat output is due to a natural transistor action of the plasma sheaths forming the photosphere and chromosphere of the Sun. A very small voltage between the body of the Sun and the underside of the photosphere controls the enormous current that lights the Sun. Nature, as we have come to expect, has found a beautifully simple method of steadying the light output of main sequence stars.’

This is called plagiarism.

For the Plasma Model, http://plasmascience.net/tpu/TheUniverse.html

The rest requires, as expected of all University undergraduates, literature search.

But Google Eric Lerner, Halton Arp, Hannes Alfven, Irving Langmuire, some who were Nobel Laureates in Physics, (not in politics).

The standard model is too over-aggregated and therefore most mysteries ought to be solved by some form of disaggregation or another.

For example we want to disaggregate the composition of the light. And see how far each wavelength tends to penetrate. Light that punches deep into the ocean can accumulate better and as well does double-duty on the way up. Or at least the joules originating from this more penetrative light do double duty. Light that makes it only halfway down the troposphere has to be considered almost ephemeral and therefore not worthy of any weighting.

If solar wind is flowing charged particles thats an electric current right there and one might expect that to be converted to heat energy at some stage.

The absurdities created by those solar physicists have gone so far that they have had to invent pseudoscientific vindications on trying to solve the paradoxes created by their own antiphysics charades.

I am absolutely sure that the rate of protons interacting in the Sun for nuclear fusion can be reduced by many effectors, including the main factor related to kinetic energy of each particle, which for protons (in all the stars in the known Universe) is quite below the necessary level for overcome the Coulomb barrier and undergo nuclear fusion.

I know also that the Sun is not a static star. As any thermodynamic system existing in the known Universe, the Sun undergoes fluctuations in pressure, temperature and content of available energy. The Sun shows huge magnetohydrodynamic fluctuations which can easily make the energy radiated by the Sun decline to levels below the baseline of 1364.4 W/m^2.

I have found always the futility of taking measurements of the TSI by satellites in orbit around the Earth. Despite the fact that those satellites can give flawed measurements from failures in sensors and transmissions of information, those satellites register a very small spot of the whole, as if the solar photon stream was microscopic.

I find your article, Dr. Fred Singer, very interesting and scientifically bright; however, with due respect, it would have been superb if you had included something about the issue explained in the above paragraphs.