Watts up with the sun?

Day after day, week after week, month after month, I check spaceweather.com and I find the " The Sun is blank; no sunspots." Sunspot Cycle 24 is on a pace to set a record for a late return, which is highly correlated to the strength of the following 11-year cycle: the later the onset of the solar cycle, the weaker it is.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/19/what-the-solar-cycle-24-ramp-up-could-look-like/

This should give the alarmists some pause to stop and consider the public reaction to having over-stated their case, and having to retract their dire predictions as we enter a cooling phase for the next decade. If they cry "Wolf!" too many times and no danger appears, when a real danger threatens, few will believe their sensationalist claims of disaster.

Considering the source you might give pause to your statements. You examine

http://www.pmodwrc.ch/pmod.php?topic=tsi/composite/SolarConstant

or

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/glob-warm.html

or

http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html

for a little science. 28 years of reliable satellite observations suggests a trend of about +0.12 W/m2 in total irradiance. This is compared to 1367 w/m2 of INcoming SOlar radiaTION (insolation). Thus the trend in insolation amounts to less than 1000th of the total insolation. The paper by Friis-Christensen and Lassen (Science, 1991) which is one of the few scientific studies on the influence of changes in insolation on climates was later shown by Damon and Laut (2004) was flawed due to simple math errors

The new issue of Sky and Telescope has a feature article on the impact of the Sun on global warming.

Andreas