Quote Originally Posted by PA5COR View Post
If that was true we should have had super conditions for decades by now.

Reality check: The energy output of the Sun varies very little over the solar cycle (i.e., by about 0.1%).
here are some suggestions that there may also be regional climate impacts due to the solar activity. Measurements from NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment show that solar UV output is more variable than the total solar irradiance. Climate modelling suggests that low solar activity may result in, for example, colder winters in the US and southern Europe and warmer winters in Canada and northern Europe, with little change in globally-averaged temperature.[2] More broadly, links have been suggested between solar cycles, global climate and events like El Nino.[85] In other research, Daniel J. Hancock and Douglas N. Yarger found "statistically significant relationships between the double [~21 year] sunspot cycle and the 'January thaw' phenomenon along the East Coast and between the double sunspot cycle and 'drought' (June temperature and precipitation) in the Midwest."[86]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_v...on_and_Weather