I don't know what Ican can say; all I know is that he generally gets it right on this stuff; but he puts his pants on one leg at a time (I presume--I have no way of verifying that) and he probably does err or get something wrong now and then. Who among us is perfect, and over the course of a long thread we are gonna say something that can be justifiably criticized.
Also, as we think about stuff and ponder this and look at that, our own perceptions likely are changed, however subtle that might be, so that we can even be seen to contradict ourselves even when that isn't the actual fact.
Anyhow, here is another site with recent information on solar TSI.
http://ilws.gsfc.nasa.gov/ilws_swiss0405.pdf
To me, it does appear that solar TSI has been decreasing over the last several years and, to me, this could explain the data recently posted showing that ocean temperatures all over the world have stablized and even cooled somewhat.
And my own observations that climate trends do not exactly correlate with solar TSI when you compare both over a year or a few years, but the overall trends do show a correlation.
So to pick one year with high solar TSI without a specific comparable spike in global temperatures that very same year just doesn't wash--for me anyway--when I draw conclusions. And because all spikes in solar TSI don't result in exactly comparable spikes in global average temps, it also follows that other factors are at play that modify the solar influence.
To me, it seems quite probably that the solar influence is the number one factor driving all large climate trends, however.