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Originally Posted by sltr
i read the art, 2x, thx for the link
i guess not everyone knows what global warming is.
fyi- global warming is the ave temp of near earth atmosphere and oceans.
solar variation (sun spots) do NOT contribute an significant impact to global warming, research has shown.
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I found this
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That change appears to be too small to significantly affect global average temperatures in the lower atmosphere. But the ebb and flow of solar radiation can heat and cool the stratosphere enough to change its circulation patterns, which may have significant impacts on regional climate. In the case of the Little Ice Age, for example, Europe and North America felt the temperature drop most strongly.
The Sun may have other, more subtle climate impacts. Some researchers speculate that energy from the Sun may influence global temperatures indirectly by affecting the formation of clouds. Others speculate that plant growth, which appears to vary during solar cycles, may respond to variations in solar energy.
Which suggest that solar cycles don't affect lower atmospheric temperatures. But, ocean / ground level temps are a local variable, and it does make sense that a higher-level change say in the statosphere could indirectly affect the variables used to measure so-called "global warming". The earth's climate is a complex system as I understand it - hence why it takes so much computing power to try and model it... and what makes it so unpredictable. It maybe in fact be a chaotic system.. where predicting the localized/specific changes on a local level when given a global change.. is next to impossible.