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Sunspots do not dominate total solar irradiance.
Peak-to-peak, eleven-year Solar-Cycle total illuminosity is related to the statistical quantitative evaluation of all magnetic flux-related, dark sunspots ( which do not block UV radiation ), and bright, interactive regions :
* moats encircling sunspots
* magnetically-induced faculae in the photosphere, brighter than surrounding senescent solar disk
* plage fields which appear co-spatially with faculae, covering an order of magnitude larger area than sunspots ( 10X ) and are longer-lived than sunspots
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During solar maximum, each cycle, when there is the highest population of 'dark' sunspots, the Sun is at it's 'brightest.'
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Dramatic daily solar ejaculations mean nothing in the aggregate, as solar physicists routinely track 81-day running means, covering three solar rotations each, recording all spectra, at all latitudes, through all angles, for eleven years, since Solar-Cycle-1, June-July, 1754, when official record keeping began.
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And one for you climate deniers to chew on:
The 2014 Solar Maximum was among the weakest maximums ever recorded since 1754, Earth set an all-time heat record, while the Moon, nor any of the other planets varied in temperature at all.