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Originally Posted by canoe
Increase in solar flares???
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Yep. You remember the Sun, don'tcha? That big thermonuclear furnace we happen to orbit? Well, no matter how much Al Gore wants to ignore it, the Sun varies in temperature, activity, and thus its energy output. The gross variances that we know of correspond well to what we infer about gross global temps here on Earth, and the finer variances we have measured recently match well with smaller peaks and troughs of temperature here.
Solar flares are an indicator of increased Solar activity, and they were increasing in occurrence and intensity all through the 70s, 80s, and 90s. They reached a historical peak right around 2000-2001 or so and I believe they've been calming down since then.
-dale