[Puckster]

Solar cycle connection with El Nino's and the La Nina's that follow: Click Here

[palmer]

The author in that link, Meehl, is something of a junk scientist. He produced the paper showing that U.S. record highs are exceeding record lows, conveniently leaving out the 30's (natural variation) and urban heat island effect (the global average temperature is supposedly corrected for UHIE, but the records are definitely not corrected). So I would read what he writes with a grain of salt.

So I read it, and conclude that he is wrong suggesting La Nina from solar maximums. The world is not doing that lately (La Nina with low solar activity). Also his goal seem to be to purposely minimize the effect of solar variation by oversimplifying it into the strawman of total solar irradiation (TSI) rather than the more important climatic effects of spectral variation (e.g. relatively larger drop in solar UV), and geomagnetic effects.