Latest Data Show Cooling Sun, Warming Earth

Lots of studies into the Sun-climate link have reported that recent changes in the heat output by the Sun are simply too small to explain much of the recent global warming.  Even 5 years ago it was clear that Earth's temperature isn't tracking solar activity very well.

And now including data up to 2015, that pattern is even clearer.  In each case the 2015 result is based on slightly incomplete data: up to end-November for temperature and mid-October for solar activity.  It shows that in the 5 years since we first published a version of the figure [at right] , Earth's surface has continued to warm despite declining solar activity.


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