Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Blog post by former California State Climatologist Jim Goodridge

Here.

An excerpt:
The sunspot record needs to be examined in its entirety rather than as individual sunspot cycles. The method to do this is by calculating the accumulated departure from the average of all the sunspot numbers of the entire 500-year index. This reveals the cooling during the Maunder Minimum and the current “global warming”. The current warming of 15 watts per square meter began in 1935, based on the sunspot record.
Note this graph:

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