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Declining solar activity linked to recent warming

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The Sun may have caused as much warming as carbon dioxide over three years.

An analysis of satellite data challenges the intuitive idea that decreasing solar activity cools Earth, and vice versa. In fact, solar forcing of Earth's surface climate seems to work the opposite way around — at least during the current Sun cycle.

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  1. Haigh, J. D., Winning, A. R., Toumi, R. & Harder, J. W. Nature 467, 696-699 (2010).

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Schiermeier, Q. Declining solar activity linked to recent warming. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.519

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