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Global Warming Could End White Christmas’
Pirate's Cove — ... An Australian researcher has linked the sun’s magnetic activity to rainfall patterns in his country over the past century. The connection is solid enough that meteorologists might be able to use it to make better long-term weather predictions. But experts remain cautious about the wider implications of the findings. ...

Global Warming Could End White Christmas’
Stop The ACLU — ... going on with below average temps. Oops, sorry, I forgot, that’s weather. It’s only climate when it gets warm. An Australian researcher has linked the sun’s magnetic activity to rainfall patterns in his country over the past century. The connection is solid enough that meteorologists might be able to use it to make better long-term weather predictions. But experts remain cautious about the wider implications of the findings. Scientists have long known that the sun plays a key role in Earth’s weather patterns. For example, the number of sunspots on its surface–dark zones of ...

The Sound Of Settled Science
small dead animals — The Sound Of Settled Science That big burning ball in the sky affects the earth in some way? How can that be? ...geographer Robert Baker of the University of New England, Armidale, in Australia, has linked solar magnetic activity to Earth's climate--at least regionally. Using sunspot counts and Australian meteorological data, as well as NASA satellite data for more recent years, he tracked sunspots and rainfall in Australia from 1876 to 2006. In this month's issue of Geographical Research, Baker reports that the amount of rainfall in most regions of the country tracked the ...