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: 
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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.You wrote:
Try this for size...
Me again, in response to that:
As I posted several pieces in SUPPORT of a solar activity climate connection, I obviously am not attacking the idea. I only expressed my surprise that someone at NASA would have gone there. However, the solar RADIANCE info that you provided looks interesting too. Thanks for that.