Who knew! That a fusion reactor sitting in our sky could drive the earth’s climate! What a novel idea. </sarcasm>.
As London Telegraph’s James Delingpole succinctly said: “It’s the sun, stupid.”
Earlier this month, the first installment in the accumulating list of hundreds of new peer-reviewed scientific papers supporting a skeptical position on climate change alarm was made available. Included on the list were 38 papers linking climate changes to solar forcing: 38 Sun-Climate Scientific Papers, January-March 2017
Just in the last few weeks alone, another 20 scientific papers were identified which link solar variations to climate changes, which means 58 papers have already been published in 2017.
Here’s a link to those 20 new Sun-Climate Papers.
I was clearly being sarcastic above. I was a physics major in college in the late 70s. Scientists were talking about global cooling and the Coming Ice Age (that was settled science back then). The reason for the various warm periods was due to variations in solar activity; the earth’s distance from the sun (it changes); effects of Jupiter and Saturn on the center of gravity of our solar system (in alignment, it can be outside the sun itself); etc.