re: #59 Coracle

We’ve done this dance already, here at LGF.
That’s still talking only about the short term cyclicality of the sunspot cycle. It may (or may not) modulate the effects of ENSO, but there is no implication it effects the century plus long warming trend caused by AGW.

Check the third link. Your contention assumes that there is only the basic 11 year cycle, while historically, there are larger cycles consisting of several 11 year periods back to back in which there are more sunspots, and several 11 year periods strung together in which they are less. In fact, this larger cyclical phenomenon is proposed as an explanation of the Maunder Minimum, which has been proposed as the cause of the Little Ice Age during the Middle Ages.