Solar Power

A team led by University of Maine scientists has reported finding a potential link between changes in solar activity and the Earth’s climate.  In a paper for the Annals of Glaciology, Paul Mayewski, director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, and 11 colleagues from China, Australia and Maine describe evidence from ice cores pointing to an association between the waxing and waning of zonal wind strength around Antarctica and a chemical signal of changes in the sun’s output.

 

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