[Just mythoughts]

Thanks. So if the Solar Cycle peaked in 2001 and is ending doesn’t that mean global warming is also ending?

[Red Badger]

No. Solar Cycle is primarily magnetic in nature. The Solar Energy output is nearly constant, with only minor variations.

From WIKI: Solar irradiance The total solar irradiance (TSI) is the amount of solar radiative energy impinging on the Earth's upper atmosphere. It is observed to vary in phase with the solar cycle, with yearly averages going from 1365.5 Watt per square meter at solar minimum, up to of 1366.6 at solar maximum, with fluctuations about the means of about +/- 1 Watt per square meter on timescales of a few days (see Figure 4, yellow and red curves). The min-to-max variation, at the 0.1% level, is far too small to affect Earth's climate, but it is worth keeping in mind that continuous reliable measurements of the TSI are only available since 1978; the minimum and maximum levels of solar activity have been remained roughly the same from then to now, spanning cycle 21 through 23.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle

[Redleg Duke]

"Thanks. So if the Solar Cycle peaked in 2001 and is ending doesn’t that mean global warming is also ending?"

Yes, that is why the moonbats have started referring to it as "Climate Change".

[Calvin Locke]

Here's the Astronomy Picture of the Day from a couple of weeks ago - a montage of Sun activity pictures from each year of the last cycle.