That the LENGTH of solar cycles is correlated with temperature is pretty neat.
I remember when that came out in Science v.254, Nov.1, 1991, p.698f. I wish there was more current data.
hmmmm....
Maybe solar activity affects the soil microbes and depresses CO2 uptake.
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Originally Posted by Biochemist
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:
Changes in the Earth’s Climate Caused by Changes in Solar Activity.
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But the correlation between solar cycles and temperature since about 1850 is much higher than between CO2 and temperature. |
Just a quick note:
I happened to choose the above link you provided, and to quote from it:
"Such models were applied by Kelly and Wigley (1992) and Schlesinger and Ramankutty (1992) using the solar cycle length as a proxy for total solar irradiance. They both found that variations in solar irradiance have been contributing to the observed global temperature change since 1860
but their calculations also indicated that since the nineteenth century, greenhouse gases have been the dominant contributor."
...btw, last I heard....
I think the IPCC attributes about 15-20% of "global warming" to solar activity.
