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Lars P. says:
John says: March 4, 2012 at 1:13 am
“Although the rarity of the current episode of high average sunspot numbers may indicate that the Sun has contributed to the unusual climate change during the twentieth century, we point out that solar variability is unlikely to have been the dominant cause of the strong warming during the past three decades.”
Yes, maybe the authors felt that they had to say this to get published, and they don’t really believe it.
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the sun’s influence would rather be over longer – centennial periods, where we have additional local decadal variations partially controlled by other mechanisms like ocean circulations or other.
I think you are right we should wait for more but it is encouraging to see science advancing.
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Peter Kovachev says:
This is a travesty. If the Sun were to be shown that it drives climate, how can we then blame people and extract taxes from them to save our world?
A citizen’s brainstormig is in order. I will contribute with my hypothesis that rising levels of CO2 cause increases in UFO activity, chem-trails and HAARP-like long waves which clearly change the direction and amplification of the teluric currents, causing impossible-to-measure but accurately computer-modelled spiritual energies which shoot up through the poles (explaining the auroras and migraines) to bombard the Sun, which understandably responds by…spotting, of course. In conclusion, it’s worse than we thought.
There, just as good as the current UN-IPCC hypothesis which has been taking a beating lately due to the embarrassing pecccadilloes of its proponents. I just need some funding to get a Playstation which can regurgitate a new model, to draw up some cool charts and to rush textbook changes for the kiddies in time for the new school year next September.
I think they're pretty slick ~ using AGW's own language against AGW.
Kind of boxes AGW in to the period covered by Mann's "hockey stick" !
It is beyond funny!