Small sunspecks emerging on both solar hemispheres

Glenn (11:58:26) :
Most of what you cite are platitudes:
“The Earth’s weather and climate regime is determined by the total solar irradiance (TSI) and its interactions with the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and landmasses.
Of course, turn off the Sun and all that…But says nothing about the variations.
Evidence from both 29 years of direct satellite monitoring and historical proxy data leaves no doubt that solar luminosity in general, and TSI in particular, are intrinsically variable phenomena.
Also true, but says nothing about the size of the variability, which is the crux of the matter.
Subtle variations of TSI resulting from periodic changes in the Earth’s orbit (Milankovich cycles: ~20, 40 and 100 Kyrs) cause climate change ranging from major ice ages to the present inter-glacial, clearly demonstrating the dominance of TSI in climate change on long timescales. TSI monitoring, cosmogenic isotope analyses and correlative climate data indicate that variations of the TSI have been a significant climate forcing during the current inter-glacial period (the last ~ 10 Kyrs.).

are dealing with changes not of the Sun, but of the aspect of the Earth over ten of thousands of years.
Phenomenological analyses of TSI monitoring results during the past (nearly) three decades, TSI proxies during the past 400 years and the records of surface temperature show that TSI variation has been the dominant forcing for climate change during the industrial era.
Is the only reference to our debate and that only over the industrial era.
The periodic character of the TSI record indicates that solar forcing of climate change will likely be the dominant variable contributor to climate change in the future.”
The TSI record only shows three solar cycles of ~11 years each and 11-year cycles are not the 30-year intervals that define climate, so a bit a sleight of hand here. Could even be true, but says nothing about the tiny size of this variation.
A paper in the Journal Of Geophysical Research from a year ago (2007),
“If ACRIM satellite composite is adopted the Sun might have further contributed to the recent global warming.”
contains the weasel words if and might have and is therefore a far cry from ‘prevailing understanding’ and ‘accepted’.
Long been debunked?
Indeed, absolutely yes.
This image from the wikipedia you like so much:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Solar-cycle-data.png
shows [as is proper] that there is no change from minimum to minimum, and, in particular, not the calibration error in the ACRIM data between cycle 21 and 22.
At the recent SORCE 2008 meeting Judith Lean concluded that for TSI “longer-term variations not yet detectable-… do they occur?”. You can see more of the modern view of TSI reconstructions here: http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/papers/haberreiter/Schoell_subm2007.pdf Especially their Figure 4, that shows how at each minimum TSI returns to the same value. Note also how the older [now obsoleted] TSI reconstructions converge with time to the flat-lining that I have pointed out repeatedly.
So, yes, long debunked!
Hunting around on the Internet for snippets that out of context may support your opinion is no substitute for deep knowledge of [and active participation in] the field. You would be better informed by accepting this and move forward with a solid basic understanding that can be had here ‘chez’ Anthony.

It did grow to a spot: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/mdi_igr/1024/latest.html