On Apr 21, 8:09*am, Paul Hyett wrote:
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 at 15:03:18, "Keith (Southend)G"
wrote in uk.sci.weather :



It could be just a blip in the general trend, nothing works to a
perfect rhythm, so I'm not convinced. The past 12 months the UK has
seen quite a number of cooler months, but my gut feeling is we've seen
the last of them for a while, infact April is looking particularly
warmer than average, but we will have to see what the summer brings,
but I wouldn't be surprised to see higher temperatures again. Even a
massive volcanic eruption would only slow the trend down for a year or
two.

I've heard that solar activity is the lowest for about a century, so
that could well be overriding any man-made climate effects.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

How much of a correlation is there between solar activity,
i.e. sunspots and solar flares etc, and solar output. No-one ever
seems to explain this and I have a suspicion that there is lot more to
it than merely assuming the sun is hotter when it is active, i.e.
spotty, and cooler when quiescent. The coincidence of the Maunder
Minimum and a particularly cold period in Europe may be no more than
that, a coincidence. It was not possible to measure solar output in
the 17th century but are there any modern measurements that show that
the sun could have been cooler? Should we assume that fewer spots
equals dimmer?

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.