He believes that climate is strongly influenced
by changes in solar activity, and that global warming over the 20th century is due to increasing solar activity.
The physical mechanism that explains how
changes in solar activity affect Earth's climate is unknown, and these episodes, however suggestive, do not prove that lower sunspot numbers produce cooling.
A new NASA study underscores the fact that greenhouse gases generated by human activity —
not changes in solar activity — are the primary force driving global warming.
For example, the Medieval Warm Period around year 1000 AD and the cold period in the Little Ice Age 1300 - 1900 AD both fits
with changes in Solar activity.
But climate models of global warming should be corrected to better account
for changes in solar activity, according to Nicola Scafetta and Bruce West of Duke University.
Climate skeptic Willie Soon talks about
how changes in solar activity are responsible for rising global temperatures during a presentation, a discredited theory.
That warming has tracked closely with the rise in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, with little apparent contribution from natural factors
like changes in solar activity, the group's latest paper concludes.
A top economic advisor to the Australian Government recently suggested in an op - ed published by the national daily The Australian that one scenario we should be prepared for is global cooling due to a
possible change in solar activity.
Solar cycle length Veizer suggests the recent global warming might be driven
by changes in solar activity (his Fig. 14a — dashed line is temperature, solid line with diamonds is solar cycle length).
Additionally, we see that the lag before ENSO is reflected in surface temperature is 2 to 4 months, 5 to 7 months for volcanic effects, and 1 month
for changes in solar activity.
It was possible, according to the I.P.C.C. consensus statement, that the warming before 1956 could be because
of changes in solar activity, and that even a substantial part of the more recent warming could be natural.
Our best estimate is some 10 times larger than the best estimate of the natural radiative forcing caused by
changes in solar activity.
Some climatologists suspect that
changes in solar activity can provoke climate change on Earth.