Sunspots correlate inversely with cloud cover. This is due to the sun’s interference with Earth-bound cosmic rays which encourage cloud formation.
The more sunspots (or solar flares), the less clouds on Earth, the warmer the planet.
Recently, a trend of low or no sunspots has been observed.
Watch out! As recent as the era of Charles Dickens, a similar period of low sunspot activity correlated with vastly colder temperatures. In fact, you could walk across a frozen Thames in Dickens’s day.
We are being lied to, and in all likelihood being setup for a major fall.
>> In fact, you could walk across a frozen Thames in Dickens’s day.
It’s worth noting that in the winter of 1775-1776, Henry Knox moved 50 some large artillery pieces from Fort Ticonderoga in New York to Boston. This involved crossing the *frozen* Hudson River with guns weighing over 5000# for the largest pieces.
It will be interesting to see the Warmists response if we start to see winters like that again due to a fall in solar output.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_train_of_artillery