[ETL]

Actually, this is the only time and place I’ve seen someone at NASA even mention a possible relation between solar activity, cloud cover and climate.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3286455/posts?page=20#20

[ETL]

I figured that was why it was buried so deeply on the site, in a section titled: Not-So-Frequently-Asked-Questions (actual title).

[spokeshave]

Actually, this is the only time and place I’ve seen someone at NASA even mention a possible relation between solar activity, cloud cover and climate.

Try this for size:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/09/08/the-climate-grain-production-relationship-quantified/

There is now consensus that the Sun has now entered a quiet period. The first paper from the solar physics community predicting the current quiet period was Schatten and Tobiska’s 2003 paper “Solar Activity Heading for a Maunder Minimum?”. To date, Solar Cycle 24 has shown similar maximum SSN amplitudes to that of Solar Cycle 5, the first half of the Dalton Minimum:

[justa-hairyape]

Yes, realize what you are doing, but NASA is just covering up its stinky but here (ie-past mistakes).