How does solar activity relate to climate changes?
Does anyone have any info, preferably a link to organizations that measure solar output/sunspot activity/etc., which relates to the temperature of the earth for as long as such things have been tracked? I’m looking for scientific data and correlations. Thanks in advance.
Stanford Solar Center:
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/600px-Temp-sunspot-co2.svg.png
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/glob-warm.html
Max Planck Institute:
http://www.mps.mpg.de/images/projekte/sun-climate/climate.gif
http://www.mps.mpg.de/en/projekte/sun-climate/
IPCC:
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-chapter2.pdf
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/assessments-reports.htm
This is a pretty good summation…
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/glob-warm.html
Here are a number of them.
David Archibald appears to be more accurate in prediciton over time, but no one that is much worth listening to is ready to predict much beyond a soalr cycle or two.
World is cooling. Sea ice is expanding. Many good sites referenced.
http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_cariboo/williamslaketribune/opinion/letters/42734707.html
Weather trend data linked to solar activity. This article references IPCC as well.
http://www.321gold.com/editorials/hoye/hoye040909.pdf
This link goes to a number of technical documents data etc detailing the correlation and likely causation between solar activity and the earths climate patterns.
http://www.isthereglobalcooling.com/
This report was presented at the International Conference on Climate Change. It is a detailed look at the solar cycle, its correlation to global climate patterns and predicts fairly dramatic cooling over the next decade.
http://www.warwickhughes.com/agri/Solar_Arch_NY_Mar2_08.pdf
This link is from some researchers at the University of Wisconsin who have made the first mathematical model that can predict with reasonable accuracy, climate trends. Based on their model, they show that Climate change is almost entirely natural. If you read the article you might get as I did, the impression that the scientists were surprised to learn that man has so little effect.
http://www.wisn.com/print/18935841/detail.html
NASA came out with this article. When you read it, they point out the low values in a number of measurements in 50+ years. What they do not spell out with the same clarity is that these are all time lows and we have only been capable of measuring those items for the past 50 or so years. Not a lie or necessarily even deception as we are not able to accurately say what those values were even 60 years ago.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/01apr_deepsolarminimum.htm
This site is run by NASA. They today added a new feature telling us how many spotless days there are in this current minimum. We are now somewhat higher than their stated average. What they don’t say is that since the minimum is still slowing, or getting deeper, there is a high probability that the spotless days number could double for this minimum. (Just about as many getting out as there were getting in)
http://www.spaceweather.com/
Web site describing satellite data for looking at weather trends on the earth
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/essd06oct97_1.htm