CO2sceptics News Blog | Sunspots linked to SOI?

Is the sun driving our weather? Robert Baker thinks it might. For a decade, he’s been observing that the fluctuations of the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) can be forecast with reasonable accuracy using the sun’s magnetic cycle.

Dr Baker’s hypothesis, to be published in a scientific journal later this year, is that the interaction between the magnetic fields of the Sun and Earth, ultraviolet radiation, and the way cloud formation is influenced by energy particles issuing from the sun, combine to suggest an alternative reason for the SOI that warrants further investigation.
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Dr Trewin said this week that he wasn’t aware of any further scientific investigation into the sun-rainfall link, but would be “very interested” to read Dr Baker’s paper.

Dr Baker’s investigation has been hampered by the fact that his hypothesis has attracted little interest from other scientists, and no funding.

He hopes this will change when his peer-reviewed paper is published later this year.