In sci.physics Sam Wormley wrote:
What's going on with the Sun?
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/46387

"Earlier this month a lot of column inches were devoted to the news that
the Sun continues to behave in a peculiar manner – and that solar
activity could be about to enter a period of extended calm. The story
emerged after three groups of researchers presented independent studies
at the annual meeting of the Solar Physics Division of the American
Astronomical Society, which appear to support this theory. But are the
new findings really that clear-cut and what implications do they have
for the climate here on Earth?

"Finally, even if the Sun were to head into a quiet period, others argue
that the reduction in solar irradiance on Earth would still be small
compared with the heating caused by man-made global warming. Mike
Lockwood, a researcher at the University of Reading, estimates that the
change in climate radiative forcing since the Maunder minimum is about
one tenth of the change caused by man-made trace greenhouse gases".

See: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/46387

And no mention that recent research indicates there is more going on with
the Sun's influence on the Earth's climate than just "radiative forcing".

See: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/45982

"According to Svensmark, cosmic rays seed low-lying clouds that reflect
some of the Sun's radiation back into space, and the number of cosmic rays
reaching the Earth is dependent on the strength of the solar magnetic field."

"he latest experiment provides evidence for a major component of this theory -
how ionization enhances cloud formation."

One sentence in the first article Sam should read over and over until it
sinks into his aging, change terrified brain:

"Also, the Earth's climate is evidently a highly complicated system,
involving interconnected feedback systems, so it is difficult to
disentangle causes and effects."


--
Jim Pennino

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