[AFPhys]

As I write today, the current solar cycle #23 has been in progress for 147 months, since May’96.

Global temperatures have been shown to be strongly correlated with solar cycle length. A cycle that is 4 months longer can be expected to yield a temperature lower by 0.1C .

The previous five cycles, from 1944 to 1996, had a cycle length of 125mo - shorter (and therefore hotter) than the average cycle of the last 200 years, which was about 133mo.

Given that this cycle has been about 22 months longer than the previous 5 cycles, we should expect that this is putting into place at present, a -0.55C difference from the last couple decades.

See: http://www.tmgnow.com/repository/solar/lassen1.html for the study.

[Rurudyne]

Very interesting!

Thanks!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Interesting.

Thanks.

[Rurudyne]

I used your article for a post in my Daily Global Cooling Watch here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969680/posts

(post #400)

Thanks again!