The New Normal, page-42

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    So that's what you were on about the other day... biggrin.png MI you've got sucked into the vortex of fake meteorology.

    "Much research has been conducted over many decades in an attempt to link sunspots or other forms of solar activity to the weather. The subject is often extremely popular with the media.

    "Countless hours have been spent in trying to convince the world that droughts or floods are the consequence of an unprecedented outburst of solar fury. Unfortunately, for each paper published showing a relationship between the floods of some year and sunspots, there can usually be found a contradictory paper showing either no relationship of perhaps a relationship between sunspots and a drought of the same year.

    "Some scientists believe there may be a small connection between weather disturbances and solar activity. Still others believe there is very little connection. The reason why many scientists have difficulty accepting that solar activity has a major affect on our weather is very simple.

    "Even a large solar eruption (either a coronal mass ejection or a flare) - although a gigantic explosion by Earth standards - only releases an amount of energy comparable to what the whole Sun emits in a few seconds. In other words, solar activity is only a very small variation of the total solar output. Much larger variations in the received sunlight at the Earth's surface are due to the Earth's tilt and its elliptical orbit." https://www.sws.bom.gov.au/Educational/1/3/13

 
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