Sun's global warming role exaggerated, says study - Environment - NZ Herald News

Although there is an 11-year solar cycle, the overall activity of the sun has risen slightly over the past century, leading some climate "sceptics" to suggest the sun rather then carbon dioxide is causing global warming.

The authors of the study, published in Nature, said solar activity could account for at most about 10 per cent of the extra warming.

The heresy of denial | The Spectator

This is a sociological problem more than a problem of physics; in truth, they all know so very little, and yet are splenetic with fury when anyone from outside the discipline attempts to challenge their assumptions. They become shrill with rage, like George Monbiot, and hurl all manner of abuse around. And yet they are frequently, almost daily, discovered to be wrong.

The latest research certainly doesn’t disprove AGW, which I still suspect to be more likely than not. But you fear for the future of what has become one of our biggest industries – climate change – when research like this is allowed to be published.