A few hundred years ago William Herschel was able to notice the inverse relationship between sunspots and the price of wheat. Total, unmitigated disinformation.
For a discussion of what can genuinely be deduced about the interaction of solar activity with global climate, see this paper:
http://ams.confex.com/ams/84Annual/techprogram/paper_74103.htm
(The Sun-Climate Connection, John A. Eddy, National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ)
As this commentator on the paper says:
Itâ(TM)s really only been since 1978 that, using newly launched satellites, weâ(TM)ve been able to measure the solar irradiance - how much energy the sun is actually dumping into our atmsophere. The idea that William Herschel's 250-year-old spurious correlations have any relevance here is flat-out ridiculous.
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For a discussion of what can genuinely be deduced about the interaction of solar activity with global climate, see this paper: http://ams.confex.com/ams/84Annual/techprogram/paper_74103.htm
(The Sun-Climate Connection, John A. Eddy, National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ)
As this commentator on the paper says: Itâ(TM)s really only been since 1978 that, using newly launched satellites, weâ(TM)ve been able to measure the solar irradiance - how much energy the sun is actually dumping into our atmsophere. The idea that William Herschel's 250-year-old spurious correlations have any relevance here is flat-out ridiculous.