July was so hot that scientists think it has already been the hottest month ever

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34. I'm not blaming the sun for climate change

what I'm saying is while temperatures are rising due to CO2, the sun has been pretty quiet recently, and from NASA, "The amount of solar energy Earth receives has followed the Sun’s natural 11-year cycle of small ups and downs".

My point is as this cycle ramps up, it's going to get even worse because they'll be even more energy reaching earth, not that the sun is responsible for climate change. Global temperature and solar irradiance had a pretty close relation until the 1970's, when they diverged. Temp going up without coming back down, but you do see that at solar minimums, the temp rises more slowly, and maximums, it rises more quickly.

Thank you for the research paper. I was looking at the larger Quaternary, but I guess geologic time doesn't help when talking about the last 6,000 yrs people started multiplying is more important. I guess that's why they are proposing a new epoch due to human influence on the earth. We may end up in another mini ice age in the north as the fresh water melt slows down the Atlantic "conveyor belt". What concerns me (and I'm trying to get the link) is that the researchers said it has happened in as little as 10 years :/