You know what's annoying about this?

Its that since the warmies f-ed up all our surface temperature stations over the last 20 years, we can't even do science like this any more. We have to go out and spend umpteen zillion dollars to re-create what they broke trying to sell their snake oil, just to get proper surface temps.

That really burns my thrusters.

What,?! Using data, and correlations and direct observation!!!??? Have those physicists no concept of true, "settled" climate "science"??? There's a lone bristlecone pine on the Yamal penninsula that could show those upstart physicists a thing or two. Deniers! Heretics! Burn them! (With appropriate carbon offsets of course).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1265638/Time-coats--forecasters-say-SNOW-way.html

My understanding is that heat comes from inside the earth, where it's a million degrees. And from farting cows.

I don't believe this whole "sun" theory - it's just too far away.

EBD, the moon reflects light and heat onto the earth, No?

Nonsense....
Today I noted crows flying west in the morning and this evening they were flying east.

I wish that the IOP hadn't used the word "blamed".
Next the moonbats will put the Sun on trial.
You think I jest - but look at them as they
attempt to demonize carbon dioxide!

Look at the heat coming from the Iceland volcano melting glaciers no less

Nice to see some climate science around here.
From the article --

// However, Lockwood is keen to emphasize that this research can tell us nothing about global climate change. He and his colleagues also analysed temperature data from central England in their raw state, rather than corrected for the underlying hemispheric warming trend, and found the relationship with solar activity breaks down after about 1900, when other studies show that central England temperatures began to respond to global climate change. "There is a tendency to see a local or regional effect as evidence for or against global warming," says Lockwood. "But our work shows how one can have a regional and seasonal variation that shows solar influence but which is different from the trends in global average data."

Michael Mann of Penn State University in the US says the research "appears to be a very solid //analysis",

Fat Algore and Suzookie are so stupid this will fly right over them. The both of them are so dumb, they would walk into their hot houses, and blame the heat on their kids farting instead of them turning the thermostat up to high. It's the sun Al.

damn that dirty magnetic sun all to he11-taylor

Mike Lockwood and others wrote a paper a few years ago "conclusively" showing that solar output changes did not effect climate. It seems the sun has a few other tricks up its sleeve. Whitewashes not withstanding, now that the travesty of AGW has been exposed, we are going to see a lot more papers on what is really going on.

Does this mean the Climate Scientology is just another story that has been Fifed?

"big, glowing ball in the sky "

Yep that little obscure ball of seething, uncontrolled, unstable, nuclear fusion that could right this instant be lancing out a solar flare that would sterilize the earth.

There oughta be a law!

John Lewis;

Oh crap, now Dalton McGuinty is going to tax sunlight.

They will probably put a sensor on the crappy smart meter on the side of my house and charge more for power when the sun intensity is higher too.

At the risk of paranoia. This article does not read as a validation of the idea that the solar activity affects climate. Rather, it looks like an attempt to deny any global effect by claiming that the undeniable European effect was only local.

For some strange reason, a loud "duh" followed by a huge Bronx cheer seems appropriate.

Wait for it.............

The volcanic eruption in Iceland will soon be blamed for the continuing (!?) cold weather all over the globe. So now they can say that global warming will be BACK in a few years when the volcanic effect clears, so they have a few more years to push Cap n Trade.

So why did it cool prior to the eruption? Ah, easy: All-Knowing Gaia, our Mother Earth, anticipated the coming volcano. Kind of like how She anticipated the coming industrial age, and started the warming in the late 1800's, prior to the increase in use of fossil fuels.

Blame the volcano in 5, 4, 3............