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Science 26 April 2002:
Vol. 296. no. 5568, pp. 673 - 677
DOI: 10.1126/science.1069562
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Review
The Sun's Role in Climate Variations
D. Rind
Is the Sun the controller of climate changes, only the
instigator of changes that are mostly forced by the system feedbacks, or simply a convenient scapegoat for climate variations lacking any
other obvious cause? This question is addressed for suggested solar
forcing mechanisms operating on time scales from billions of years to
decades. Each mechanism fails to generate the expected climate response
in important respects, although some relations are found. The magnitude
of the system feedbacks or variability appears as large or larger than
that of the solar forcing, making the Sun's true role ambiguous. As
the Sun provides an explicit external forcing, a better understanding
of its cause and effect in climate change could help us evaluate the
importance of other climate forcings (such as past and future
greenhouse gas changes).
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) at Columbia
University, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025, USA. E-mail:
drind{at}giss.nasa.gov
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