Going back to the OP and Project Astrometria
http://www.gao.spb.ru/english/astrometr/index1_eng.html
The TSI activity of the Sun defines temporal scales for practically all physical processes in the system Sun-Earth.
Let's accept that for now. At least it cuts out cosmic rays.
The solar energy flux dynamically defines the climate of the Earth and other planets of the Solar System.
Not for Jupiter it doesn't. Just saying.
The solar energy flux is in turn defined by the area of solar surface or, in the other words, by the diameter of the Sun.
Now
that's contentious and I can't find any support for it in the remainder of the piece. References to the 4th Heatland Conference I can find easily, but not that.
An exact value of variations of the solar diameter is an important fundamental parameter and the most important indicator of the TSI variation and of sunspot activity.
Again, not exactly obvious.
Precise measurements of the temporal variations of the shape and diameter of the Sun, not distorted by instabilities of the Earth atmosphere and oscillation processes within it, can only be conducted from an airless space.
Which explains why there's no support provided for Abdussamatov's claim. He can't
know how the Sun's diameter has changed, or whether that has a close relationship with TSI, until his team gets up there and measures it.
Abdussamatov is telling us what
will be observed from the Great White Elephant (aka the International Space Station) and how it backs up his theory. A theory that must be highly credible, else why the Heatland Conference attention it garners?
irony
Solar-observing satellites have been up there for a while now - do they not observe Solar diameter? If not, I'm sure it can be picked out of the images they've supplied. Then again, that wouldn't justify funding Project Astronomia space-junkets.
He's provided his TSI predictions for 2009 on, so no doubt he'll have an update soon. He also has sunspot number (on a 2-century sliding average) decreasing for some time now, below a picture of a painting of a frozen Thames (for some reason), but we'll all be long-gone before that pans out.
He does provide the TSI value he's using for Solar Cycle 22 (1365.99 W/m
2) and Solar Cycle 23 (1365.82 W/m
2). 0.17 out of 1365 and a bit. Not much, is it? Rather less than the 30% increase in atmospheric CO
2 in the last century or so, and rather difficult to correlate with solar diameter measurements "distorted by instabilities of the Earth atmosphere and oscillation processes within it".
("Oscillation processes"? Maybe it's better in Russian.)