re: #880 hopperandadropper

Yeah, I’ve heard the dust storm “explanation” before. It ignores the fact that energy is required to generate storms. Larger storms are entirely consistent with greater solar output.

But there was no greater solar output. We have been measuring it.

Statements like “solar variations do not explain the observations” are disingenuous because they imply that we fully understand all aspects of solar activity.

No they’re not. It’s quite simple - either solar output data matches recent temperature changes, or it doesn’t. Guess what? It doesn’t.