QUOTE="futurecurrents, post: 4151060, member: 11181"]You may notice the word "major". I doubt he says it is the major driver. But I will look into his work further. But all this talk about solar output changes is just a red herring. The solar forcing effect of the rise in greenhouse gasses far exceeds, by orders of magnitude, solar activity changes.
"Solar output changes have never been the major driver of climate change". [/QUOTE]
If you were to say, and I think you did earlier, that it wasn't the driver of major climate change, I might agree. I would agree with you that the angle of solar input changes such as occur during various phases of the Milankovitch cycle are.
My point in posting the article was that they believed it was a very slight reduction in solar output but yet still produced a significant drop in temps over parts of the globe for a reasonable period of time. I didn't post it as part of the greenhouse gas argument, as that wasn't an issue at the time of the MM. His points about how solar reduction caused change was quite interesting, in my opinion.
"Solar output changes have never been the major driver of climate change". [/QUOTE]
If you were to say, and I think you did earlier, that it wasn't the driver of major climate change, I might agree. I would agree with you that the angle of solar input changes such as occur during various phases of the Milankovitch cycle are.
My point in posting the article was that they believed it was a very slight reduction in solar output but yet still produced a significant drop in temps over parts of the globe for a reasonable period of time. I didn't post it as part of the greenhouse gas argument, as that wasn't an issue at the time of the MM. His points about how solar reduction caused change was quite interesting, in my opinion.
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