"The Sun's 23rd cycle peaked in 2002 and has been declining since culminating in very low activity in 2008 (August being the month where no sunspots were recorded)."
The Suns 23rd cycle? Really? From When? Did you count 'em? And...if there really HAVE been 23 cycles of the sun...just how LONG does that make each one? (I'll give you a clue...its just a little bit longer than the period of GW that concerns us)
"Ulysses data indicate the solar wind's global pressure is the lowest we have seen since the beginning of the space age."
Er...how OLD is the space age? If we are measuring parameters that have affected the solar system over the last billion years or so, are fluctuations over such a short period significant? Remember, unlike our climate, there is no effective method of determining what these parameters were before measuremnts started. WIth climate we have many methods of making a damn good estimate, over a considerable period.
" The region around the heliopause also acts as a shield for our solar system, warding off a significant portion of the cosmic rays outside the galaxy."
Singers....you repeatedly insist that the HUMAN effects on the atmosphere are way too small to have influence on our climate. Then, in the next breath, you want us to accep that a change in cosmic rays from OTHER GALAXIES can be causing the change.
"Galactic cosmic rays are of great interest to NASA. Cosmic rays are linked to engineering decisions for unmanned interplanetary spacecraft and exposure limits for astronauts traveling beyond low-Earth orbit."
Read that bit again....and again. It is NOT suggesting that changes in cosmic rays will affect our climate. While I am quite sure that ANY changes in the output of the sun will have an effect, they tend to be cyclical, and thus largely predictable. The change in our planets temperature falls OUTSIDE of such predictions. This is something that you seem to keep ignoring. The changes in our atmosphere due to the suns cycles have been included in all the models. However, the ACTUAL changes that have occurred are greater, and faster than expected.
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