PUKALANI – Over decades of scanning changes in the sun, solar astronomers noticed that when there were few sunspots, the Earth was cold; and when there were many, the Earth was warmer.
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Solar astronomer Jeff Kuhn explains why the Earth-sun interaction, not carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, is the likeliest explanation of climate change. He was speaking at the Advanced Technology Research Center of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy on Friday.
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