Sentences with phrase «decreasing solar activity since»

«The stagnation of temperature since 1998 was caused by decreasing solar activity since 1998,» wrote Jürgen Lange Heine, a physicist with the German - based European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE).

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For example, the scientific explanation that temperatures have not risen since 2001 is because an «upward push by anthropogenic forces was temporarily offset by a downward pull as solar activity decreased and the oceans absorbed more heat than usual from the atmosphere (sea water temperatures continued to rise)».

However, so far, they have only used those reconstructions which (a) suggested an early 20th century increase followed by a decrease, or (b) suggested there has been almost no change in solar activity since the 19th century.

One section of the IPCC report examines the role of the sun on climate change and concludes that since 1980, solar activity has decreased and had a slight cooling influence on our climate.

Climate-wise, all those layers have cooled the past half - century, and not because of decreasing solar activity, since the temperatures at successive solar minima have cooled.

He did not say just when the warming had stopped, but his reason for believing that Earth is cooling was decreasing Solar magnetic activity, which he noted he and his colleagues had been watching «with increasing concern, since it began to wane in the mid-1990s.»

For average sunspot activity decreased after 1980, and on the whole, solar activity had not increased during the half - century since 1950.