Deranged Scientist Claims That Sun Affects the Earth’s Weather and Climate

The sun’s magnetic field may have a significant impact on weather and climatic parameters in Australia and other countries in the northern and southern hemispheres. According to a study in Geographical Research, the droughts are related to the solar magnetic phases and not the greenhouse effect.
The study uses data from 1876 to the present to examine the correlation between solar cycles and the extreme rainfall in Australia.
It finds that the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) – the basic tool for forecasting variations in global and oceanic patterns – and rainfall fluctuations recorded over the last decade are similar to those in 1914 -1924
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Author Professor Robert G. V. Baker from the School of Environmental Studies, University of New England, Australia, says, “The interaction between the directionality in the Sun’s and Earth’s magnetic fields, the incidence of ultraviolet radiation over the tropical Pacific, and changes in sea surface temperatures with cloud cover – could all contribute to an explanation of substantial changes in the SOI from solar cycle fluctuations. If solar cycles continue to show relational values to climate patterns, there is the potential for more accurate forecasting through to 2010 and possibly beyond.”

Doesn’t this guy realize that he’s in direct contradiction of Goreian science. Everyone knows that this was settled when Al Gore came out with his slideshow. It’s not the sun that causes variations in the climate. It’s adding one molecule of carbon dioxide for every 100,000 molecules in the atmosphere every five years. Clearly that effect outweighs that big bright candle in the sun that nobody understands anyway.