<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a467b02b-0043-4ce3-9961-73aaf7844ab6/3D97DCBA-E891-4141-AF2A-366CC6364FC6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.intellicast.com/Community/Content.aspx?a=130" href="http://www.intellicast.com/Community/Content.aspx?a=130" style="font-size: 11px;">www.intellicast.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.intellicast.com/Community/Content.aspx?a=130"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.intellicast.com/img/00D63029-0D9E-4D5E-B367-6088EDFFCCE7" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.intellicast.com/Community/Content.aspx?a=130"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.intellicast.com/img/8A7FAF32-6AC3-4604-B1A6-FC53BDE9C47B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.intellicast.com/Community/Content.aspx?a=130"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.intellicast.com/img/766A7584-925D-4419-A8F8-29E9B7A40819" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.intellicast.com/Community/Content.aspx?a=130"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.intellicast.com/img/734103E4-24AA-4C5F-9225-47148CF4DF7F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.intellicast.com/Community/Content.aspx?a=130"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN><DIV><B><I>SOLAR CYCLES AND TEMPERATURES</I></B></DIV><BR />When the sun is more active, it is brighter than when it is quiet. This difference in brightness or irradiance over the 11 year cycle is about 0.1%. The irradiance change though since the little ice age may be as high as 0.4 or 0.5% and has been used to explain the ice age and recovery since. Even on the shorter term, there are other solar factors at play besides simple brightness or irradiance changes. </SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.intellicast.com/Community/Content.aspx?a=130">While irradiance changes just 0.1% over the 11 year cycle, ultraviolet radiation changes 6 to 8% and shorter wavelengths even more. Ultraviolet radiation destroys ozone, an exothermic process which produces warming in the higher atmosphere in low to mid latitudes that works its way down to the middle troposphere in time.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.intellicast.com/Community/Content.aspx?a=130"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.intellicast.com/img/04A8205E-5EF5-4950-BBDE-4180860BBDCF" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.intellicast.com/Community/Content.aspx?a=130"><DIV>MAUNDER MINIMUM</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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