Careful: suggesting that the sun has emitted far more thermal energy the last 150 years might give people ideas /s
On a related note: Now I am interested and I wonder if the change is big enough to make a difference on the earth and if it has been accounted for in the models.
I mean, if you plot solar activity and global temperatures, there is a correlation.
But, you've all seen those graphs of totally unrelated things that show a correlation. So, it must absolutely only be caused by humans, right? Because there's no way the most energetic thing for 100 million miles fluctuating wildly in its energy output could cause matching fluctuations in a planet's atmosphere, right?
”The amount of solar energy Earth receives has followed the Sun’s natural 11-year cycle of small ups and downs, with no net increase since the 1950s. Over the same period, global temperature has risen markedly. It is therefore extremely unlikely that the Sun has caused the observed global temperature warming trend over the past half-century.”
I mean, the amount of solar irradiance is directly correlated to the amount and activity of sunspots, which have increased steadily at roughly the same rate as average global temperatures.
It's not even something that you need secret mystical knowledge that only the woowoo anti-climate-change wonks believe in, you can get the data and do the maths on it yourself.
On a related note: Now I am interested and I wonder if the change is big enough to make a difference on the earth and if it has been accounted for in the models.
Say it has...