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Originally Posted by Essay
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. 
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. 
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Good post Essay. I especially liked the idea of soil microbes controlling uptake.
As far as solar goes, as I said before, it is the main driver of climate (afterall, without the sun, nothing else matters). Nonetheless, this variable is well accounted for. Essay's quote above exemplifies this point.
