<div><a href="http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20081118_octobertemps.html">http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20081118_octobertemps.html</a></div>
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<li>Separately, the global land surface temperature was 50.72 degrees F — 2.02 degrees F above the 20th century mean of 48.7 degrees F, ranking as the warmest October on record. Much of the unusual warmth occurred over Asia, Australia, and Eastern Europe.</li>
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<div>And to enlighten and or remind anyone who might be reading this post, solar forcing is unlikely to be the cause of these warming global temperature trends, as expertly analyzed in the following scientific paper, that references spacecraft data on solar output, as was suggested is required to investigate this question, yet was never acknowledged on this list after I presented the very data requested:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7108/abs/nature05072.html">http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7108/abs/nature05072.html</a></div>
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<h1 class="page-header">Review</h1>
<p id="cite"><i>Nature</i> <b>443</b>, 161-166 (14 September 2006) | <abbr title="Digital Object Identifier">doi</abbr>:10.1038/nature05072</p>
<h2 id="atl">Variations in solar luminosity and their effect on the Earth's climate</h2>
<p id="aug">P. Foukal<sup><a title="affiliated with " href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7108/abs/nature05072.html#a1">1</a></sup>, C. Fröhlich<sup><a title="affiliated with " href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7108/abs/nature05072.html#a2">2</a></sup>, H. Spruit<sup><a title="affiliated with " href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7108/abs/nature05072.html#a3">3</a></sup> and T. M. L. Wigley<sup><a title="affiliated with " href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7108/abs/nature05072.html#a4">4</a></sup></p>
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<h3 class="hidden">Abstract</h3>
<p class="lead">Variations in the Sun's total energy output (luminosity) are caused by changing dark (sunspot) and bright structures on the solar disk during the 11-year sunspot cycle. The variations measured from spacecraft since 1978 are too small to have contributed appreciably to accelerated global warming over the past 30 years. In this Review, we show that detailed analysis of these small output variations has greatly advanced our understanding of solar luminosity change, and this new understanding indicates that brightening of the Sun is unlikely to have had a significant influence on global warming since the seventeenth century. Additional climate forcing by changes in the Sun's output of ultraviolet light, and of magnetized plasmas, cannot be ruled out. The suggested mechanisms are, however, too complex to evaluate meaningfully at present.</p>
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<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div>