By Andy May
In part 3 we discussed the relationship between changes in solar activity and climate changes. Exactly how solar changes affect climate is not understood. It isn’t the immediate change in radiation delivered to the Earth, since that is too small to have much of an effect. So, it must be how Earth’s climate system reacts to the changes. The observed impact of solar irradiance changes over the solar cycle on the climate is much larger than the change in delivered radiation can account for.[1] A likely amplifying mechanism is Earth’s convection and atmospheric circulation system. This post examines that idea. It is yet another important idea that the IPCC and AR6 ignore and brush away as unimportant, vis-à-vis global warming.
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