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Science 16 June 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5473, p. 1986
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5473.1986
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The Sun Again Intrudes on Earth's Decadal Climate Change

Richard A. Kerr

Researchers have long doubted that solar cycles affect terrestrial climate, because no one has yet come up with a convincing mechanism to explain how tiny changes on the sun might change climate on Earth. Now, however, two such correlations--a 22-year climate cycle recorded in glacial sediments and the tracing of an 11-year cycle from the stratosphere into the lower atmosphere--may be robust enough to give the sun-climate link a touch more respectability.

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