[KayEyeDoubleDee]

This is the first place I had actually seen this graph showing the close correlation between temperature and the solar cycle. Dr. Baliunas is, of course, the expert on this subject.

Figure 5 -- Changes in the sun's magnetism (as evidenced by the changing length of the 22-year, or Hale Polarity Cycle, dotted line) and changes in Northern Hemisphere land temperature (solid line) are closely correlated. The sun's shorter magnetic cycles are more intense, suggesting periods of a brighter sun, then a fainter sun during longer cycles. Lags or leads between the two curves that are shorter than twenty years are not significant, owing to the 22-year time frame of the proxy for brightness change. The record of reconstructed Northern Hemisphere land temperature substitutes for global temperature, which is unavailable back to 1700 (S. Baliunas and W. Soon, 1995, Astrophysical Journal, 450, 896).

[AZLiberty]

I think Congress should pass a law -- the Solar Non-Variation Act -- that prohibits the sun's energy from varying from one year to the next. It would make about as much sense, and have about as much impact, as the Kyoto Protocol.