Sentences with phrase «small changes in solar output»

There is a solid body of research now showing that any apparent slow - down of warming during the past decade was likely due to natural short - term factors (like small changes in solar output and volcanic activity) and internal fluctuations related to e.g. the El Niño phenomenon.

The interior of the sun is turbulent flow modulating the small changes in solar output.

Nevertheless, the observation has raised the intriguing possibility that a cosmic ray — cloud interaction may help explain how a relatively small change in solar output can produce much larger changes in Earth's climate.

Not exact matches

The change is small — about 0.1 percent — but other, longer - term shifts in solar output seem to correlate with noticeable shifts in earthly climate.

Thanks for publishing this, there are folks who denigrated the work of scientists that claimed a solar - climate (temperature) link because the variability in solar energy output just wasn't enough to explain the temperature swings, and perhaps they now realize that there could be another mechanism - similar to a transistor where small changes in gate voltage can affect large changes in power transmission - whereby solar activity can create significant effects on temperature.

Funny thing is, the energy involved in these solar changes is a really, really small fraction of the total solar output.

We can only be sure that we are right if someone can explain how such a large influence on the atmosphere can be produced by comparatively small changes in the energy output of the Sun during the solar cycle.

Since such models can not account for the climate system's apparent sensitivity to small perturbations in solar energy apparently brought about by the very long term changes in the Earth's orbit about the Sun, they may also underestimate climate sensitivity to energy output fluctuations caused by solar activity, even during the eleven - year Schwabe cycle.

Any change in net solar power output is relatively small as Leif says and being a seperate issue apparently incapable of explaining observed variability in the climate system.