Update on Oct 7, 2010 by
Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill
The Express story is here, and they have squeezed me in near the end.
There is much excitement in the MSM today over a new paper by Joanna Haigh et al. This is Nature's take:
An analysis of satellite data challenges the intuitive idea that decreasing solar activity cools Earth, and vice versa. In fact, solar forcing of Earth's surface climate seems to work the opposite way around — at least during the current Sun cycle.
The Express asked me to comment on the story and I gave them a couple of lines that I imagine they will have found rather too cautious for their liking. I can't see their story online though.
Bishop Hill
The Express story is here, and they have squeezed me in near the end.