The best evidence in support of that proposition of slow long term
solar background changes is the gradual and irregular change from Roman Warm period to The Dark Ages to the Mediaeval Warm Period and thence to the Little Ice Age and finally to our recent Modern Maximum.
Not exact matches
Out in the real world, they are quickly overwhelmed by
background noise as minuscule as
changes in Earth's magnetic field caused by distant
solar storms.
The atmospheric Greenhouse Effect merely sets a theoretical
background atmospheric temperature level that is continually overridden as a result of the size of the constant interlinked
changes in both the
solar and oceanic heat inputs.
As regards the
background effect of
solar changes I find the work of David Archibald very persuasive
My opinion expressed elsewhere is that almost all the temperature
changes we observe over periods of less than a century are caused by cyclical
changes in the rate of energy emission from the oceans with the
solar effect only providing a slow
background trend of warming or cooling for several centuries at a time.
The equilibrium temperature without energy inputs from the Sun would be the
background temperature of the
solar system and isothermal is of course a
change in the system without a temperature
change.
I think they show that both cycles are underlain by a longer, larger cycle giving a
background rising trend over the period for which the
solar changes from 1600 to date would be a primary candidate.
The origin of a slowly varying irradiance component may derive from
changes in the
solar faculae and / or in the
background solar radiation from
solar quiet regions.