"Len Wood" wrote in message
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Not sure whether this research has been covered on this ng already
but
Imperial College and Colorado have got together to study this old
chesnut. Although the effect of solar activity on the Earth's
atmosphere has been Joanna Haigh's claim to fame for a long time.
Summary: A decline in solar activity leads to a warmer Earth.
There is a lack of detail in the press release below, I suppose you
need to read the paper in 'Nature' for more info. Surprised they
published it on so few years data.

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandev...%3Dsun_climate

Len Wood
Wembury, SW Devon


Yes it has and as Nigel Calder sums it up nicely especially relating to the
eager pouncing on just 3 years bloody research, by the usual suspects.

http://calderup.wordpress.com/2010/1...aft/#more-1649

"Let's say that the satellite results are surprising, but as they concern
solar irradiance and not variations in cosmic rays, there's no reason to
expect a big climatic impact. And Haigh's wish to invert the active Sun's
influence from positive to negative does nothing to explain all the
historical data on solar activity and climate change, going back to William
Herschel, 1801, and the link between sunspots and the price of wheat.

And I'm afraid that just as Al Gore had to share his Nobel Prize with the
Pachauri Gang, Haigh must split my award of three raspberries with the
editors of Nature and with the BBC's environmental team.

Suppose someone offered to Nature a paper saying, "We've got three years of
satellite data here and a computer model suggesting that an increase in
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere cools the world." Would Nature publish it?
Would the BBC greet it with enthusiasm and carry the remark on its website,
"The view that carbon dioxide may be driving modern-day climate change has
clouded policy discussions"?

You may doubt it, yet the doughty Richard Black of the BBC, who has made a
career of rubbishing the solar contribution to climate change, uses the
flimsy Haigh report to try to put the knife in once again: "The view that
the Sun may be driving modern-day climate change has clouded policy
discussions." "