Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33362-1, published online 03 May 2009

The original version of this Article contained an error in Figs. 3 and 8, in which the global forcing curve was calculated and plotted incorrectly with incorrect description of variables in the Figure Caption of Figure 8. This read ‘volcanic radiative forcing41; decadal solar irradiance42, mean annual insolation at 65°N48–50, and relative sea level47’ and now reads: ‘volcanic radiative forcing41; decadal total solar irradiance variations42 at earth surface (ΔTSI at the top of the atmosphere × (1 – albedo)/4, with mean albedo =0.29), mean annual insolation at 65°N48–50, and relative sea level47’. This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.