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Solar Forcing of Global Climate Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Paul E. Damon  and
John L. Jirikowic
Paul E. Damon
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 87521, USA
John L. Jirikowic
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 87521, USA

Abstract

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Using present global warming and paleoclimatic records from climatically sensitive regions as a frame of reference, we infer that global temperature changes did not exceed ±0.5°C during the current interglacial or ±2.0°C during the last glacial period. In order to completely explain such fluctuations by solar irradiance changes, all solar and terrestrial factors must be optimized. Since this is unlikely, we conclude that solar forcing of pre-anthropogenic climate change is a significant and perhaps dominant factor but other processes must also be significant. Solar irradiance changes alone cannot result in the temperature decrease required to change from interglacial to glacial as suggested by Opik (1965).

Type
The Response of the Earth’s Atmosphere to Solar Irradiance Variations and Sun-Climate Connections
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 143: The Sun as a Variable Star: Solar and Stellar Irradiance Variations , 1994 , pp. 301 - 314
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994

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