Many of us knew intuitively that the sun was the driver of global warming. Increases of 100 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere seem almost trivial in historical context. Adding to the skepticism was the revelation that historically increases in CO2 levels have lagged behind temperature increases. The latest jolt to the carbon is killing us argument is a new paper published in Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics The paper has a more dire but opposite prediction than the IPCC models. It predicts a 1 degree centigrade drop in global temperatures by 2020. Fortunately the authors have the restraint to confine themselves to the occurrence of a temperature drop without the melodrama the left associates with temperature increases.
Of course the greens and the rent seekers who promote global warming hysteria have made some outlandish shot term forecast too so it will be interesting to see the argument resolved in our lifetimes. It will happen during the next president's term. The prediction is based on a discovered correlation between the length of solar cycles and global temperatures. More.
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