Actually, the thread didn’t really go off the deepend. There is another thread, along the same lines going on now. It was suggested in that article that “cosmic rays” don’t change with the solar cycle, and “thus” we can’t say that the sun effects the environment.
This is blatantly incorrect, bad logic and so on. Someone merely mentioned that thread at the beginning.
It all comes down to real science though - and global warming is something that DOES happen, but not based on man-made problems, rather based on the Sun itself. Because of this, these things are definitely connected.
Apparently it did go off the deep end, all this study is about is the authors noted a correlation between solar activity & forest fires. Nothing more, nothing less. They don't link it to or even mention global warming in any way, pro or con.
It was I not the authors who linked it to the global warming issue by noting in the 1st post that if this study is true, then what the alarmist have been telling us about the sun having no effect on climate can not be true. Somehow that lead to tin-foil hats and some leftist political motivation that's just not there. Again, if anything, this study is a plus to the skeptical (the correct)side.