Horoscopes are real, I know that much
How would there be a difference between the two as having an effect on the climate is causing the climate to change. If Chicago gets more vortex in the face for another few years, that will be the winter climate there pretty much.
We are still all "theory" on the sun, Climate science is new, Meteorology has been around a long time tho and they still don't understand a bunch of things.
Yet somehow people can claim the IPCC are right, given every claim they ever made is wrong (I get jumped on for one perceived inaccuracy) but the same people will give the IPCC a pass on well over a decade of pure horse ****![]()
I know the sun affects climate since it has an important role in controlling the earth's temperature. But when climate changes, how much of that change is down to the sun? If the climate is changing but the sun's activity isn't, then the sun's role in climate stays the same but it's role in climate change is negative. Doesn't that show a difference between the two? Bear in mind I have no clue on this and am just seeking to understand.
So you don't think the sun affects climate?
The Sun is the source of nearly all the energy on Earth, so of course it affects climate.
But the Sun has existed for 4.6 billion years and will last about the same again. It won't change significantly for the next 1 billion years. So I don't see how trying to blame the last couple hundred years or so of climate change on it makes sense. The only thing that's changed significantly over that timescale is human activity due to industry.
People who want to claim the Sun has an effect on climate (AGW deniers) point to the Maunder minimum and say "there was a low temperature then and low solar magnetic activity then!"
The problem for them is that the Sun has an 11 year magnetic activity cycle. So if they are right about the Maunder minimum we should be having mini ice ages every 11 years. Not only does this blatantly not happen, they have been unable to find any evidence at all of the 11 year cycle in the climate data.
The Sun is the source of nearly all the energy on Earth, so of course it affects climate.
But the Sun has existed for 4.6 billion years and will last about the same again. .


Re the Sun earth connection and our climate. I hope NASA is not deemed anti AGW source by some on here
"The satellites have found evidence of magnetic ropes connecting Earth's upper atmosphere directly to the sun," said David Sibeck, project scientist for the mission at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. "We believe that solar wind particles flow in along these ropes, providing energy for geomagnetic storms and auroras."
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/themis/auroras/northern_lights.html#.VVHHZJMg_cs
This is just more confirmation that the sun delivers energy to earth other than standard irradiance
Just more solid evidence that IPCC modelling is utter cack, as if the conistenyly wrong results are not enough.
There's also plenty of work on how solar input causes more lightening on earth, again this is dismissed by IPCC modelling.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27406358
What has this got to do with climate change?
It merely backs what I have said already, that you did not read, about how the electromagnetic connections between earth and the sun deliver more energy than standard irradiance.
NASA have confirmed energy is transferred along magnetic lines via Alfven waves, I posted the source for that already, a NASA source.
now on a different NASA source, they confirm the magnetic connections between earth and the sun, doesn't take a genius to figure out that Alfven waves can carry more energy to earth via the large EM connections of earth facing sun spots\coronal holes.
Plus the recent work linking solar output to lightning on earth.
Evidence of Solar wing Modulating lightning
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/9/5/055004/article
So to accept the above is valid and then say it has nothing to do with earth's climate is silly, to not factor in such influences in modelling can only lead to what? being wrong every time. [HASHTAG]#JustliketheIPCC[/HASHTAG]
Stop acting like you have access to some magical information about magnetic activity. It's not some obscure theory.
The energy from the Sun is about 10^21 J per day. This massive storm is about 10^15 J. So it's silly not to take this extra 0.0001% energy into account?
Your ignorance makes your agenda pathetically clear. You don't actually give a **** about science and will jump and twist anything to attack the IPCC.

Again using language to cast aspersions on myself
Secondly, the IPCC have dismissed the irradiance variability as not relevant. They do not include it in any modelling.
Lastly you attack me again when rpesented with solid sources to back the theory, whilst defending the AGW theory that has no solid backing in science.
Here's another re solar wind which is accelerated in an electrical field which drives lightening on earth.
http://phys.org/news/2014-05-high-speed-solar-lightning-earth.html


