[Coral-List] Climate and the Sun?

[Eugene Shinn]

Listers may find this NASA announcement about a global eruption on 
the Sun of interest and some may even suspect a connection with 
climate change and corals. 
<http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-atnasa/2010/13dec_globaleruption/> 
Many scientists have proposed that events on the sun, ie., sunspot 
abundance are related to climate change especially the lack 
documented lack of sunspots for around 100 years that is associated 
with the little ice age. Yes I know the IPCC does not consider the 
sun significant and I have read all their reasons and am awasre that 
they remain fully committed to CO2. It will be interesting to see how 
this all plays out now that we have satellites that specifically 
monitor the sun. Gene  
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