From Pat O'Neill
In one news article you describe how cosmic rays can increase cloud cover, especially at solar minimum, as observed during the mid-1990s (7 October, p 13). Another announces that the upper layers of the ocean have cooled by 0.02 °C between 2003 and 2005 (7 October, p 14). It notes that a similar cooling occurred between 1980 and 1983.
I propose a possible link between the two phenomena: namely that both are a consequence of the solar activity minima that occur approximately every 11 years. What a coincidence that these articles were on consecutive pages!
Belfast, UK
