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Originally Posted by freeztar
What data are you referring to?
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As I recall, when I wrote this I was thinking about the recent ARGO ocean floats that showed cooling since they were deployed:
Opinion: New data shows ocean cooling - OCRegister.com
But the overriding issue is the fraction of warming related to the solar cycle. There has always been significant research on this topic, although most is generally discounted by the (political) IPCC. There are many studies like the following:
Solar Activity and Climate
or
Solar Activity: A Dominant Factor in Climate Dynamics
or
Changes in the Earth’s Climate Caused by Changes in Solar Activity.
I confess I do not always understand the "forcing" calculations as offered above in InfiniteNow's post #247. I am frankly suspicious of the frameworks that use "Forcing models" that I can't decipher. But when CO2 levels change dramatically (as they have since 1998) and there is insignificant warming (or even cooling), I am more than a little suspicious aboout causality.
But the correlation between solar cycles and temperature since about 1850 is much higher than between CO2 and temperature.
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