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Solar Cycles Provide An Excellent Fit To Clouds

Solar Cycles Provide An Excellent Fit To Climate

It has been known for over 200 years that there is a relationship between the price of wheat and sunspots. William Hershel reported that finding to the Royal Society in 1801.  (Herschel, W., 1801, Philosophical Transactions, 91, 265.)
It has recently been shown that there is a good correlation between solar cycle length and climate, as this chart shows.
Notice the dip in both solar and temperature from about 1940-1965. There is no such dip in graphs of  CO2.
Graph  adapted by Dr. Tim Patterson.from: Friis-Christensen, E., and K. Lassen, Science, 254, 698-700, 1991

The Sun is a much better short term fit to climate than CO2.

Here is a long term chart of solar cycle length and temperature as implied by an isotope of Oxygen. Historic CO2 levels do not show any of these ups and downs. Again the sun is a better fit than CO2.

 Graph from:  Long-term Variations in Solar Activity and their Apparent Effect on the Earth's Climate  K.Lassen, Danish Meteorological Institute, Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division, Lyngbyvej,100, DK-2100 Copenhagen (2), Denmark.
http://www.tmgnow.com/repository/solar/lassen1.html

The Sun is a much better long term fit to climate than CO2

There is a close relationship between the number of sunspots and cosmic rays.

 

Notice that the peaks of the lower (blue) line match up with the valleys of the upper (orange) chart.

There is a close relationship between cosmic rays and cloud cover

 

Higher cosmic rays, more clouds. (Red arrow from cloud cover peak to cosmic ray peak)

 

Lower cosmic rays, fewer clouds. (red arrow from  cloud cover dip to cosmic ray bottom.)

 

“anthropogenic sources alone contributed to a warming of 0.14 +/- .36°C since the beginning of the 20th century.”

 

“Increased solar activity is responsible for a total increase of 0.47 +/- .19°C”

 

Total: 0.61 +/- 0.42°C  (compare with IPCC 0.57 +/- 0.17°C)

 

Shaviv, N. J., 2005. On climate response to changes in the cosmic ray flux and radiative budget. J. Geophys. Rsch., VOL. 110, A08105, doi:10.1029/2004JA010866, 2005

¾ of warming due to solar activity:  Nir J. Shaviv

CO2science has a lengthy list of quality articles about the solar connection at

http://www.co2science.org/subject/s/summaries/solarirradiance.php