Comments welcome on this article, particularly informed ones.
  
    rkm
  
http://www.warwickhughes.com/agri/Solar_Arch_NY_Mar2_08.pdf
    Here are the first few paragraphs of the article:
  
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    Solar Cycle 24:  Implications for the United States 
  
      David Archibald 
    
      International Conference on Climate Change 
    
      March, 2008 
    
      Do we live in a special time in which the laws of physics and nature are suspended?  No, 
    
      we do not.  Can we expect relationships between the Sun’s activity and climate, that we can 
    
      see in data going back several hundred years, to continue for at least another 20 years?  
    
      With absolute certainty.  
    
      In this presentation, I will demonstrate that the Sun drives climate, and use that 
    
      demonstrated relationship to predict the Earth’s climate to 2030.  It is a prediction that 
    
      differs from most in the public domain.  It is a prediction of imminent cooling.   
    
      To put the solar – climate relationship in context, we will begin by looking at the recent 
    
      temperature record, and then go further back in time.   
    
      Then we will examine the role of the Sun in changing climate, and following that the 
    
      contribution of anthropogenic warming from carbon dioxide.  I will show that increased 
    
      atmospheric carbon dioxide is not even a little bit bad.  It is wholly beneficial.  The more 
    
      carbon dioxide we can put into the atmosphere, the better the planet will be – for humans, 
    
      and all other living things. 
    
      etc…
    
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