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- From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
- Subject: Re: wet California correlated with solar geophysical activity
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.180424.15880@unocal.com>
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- References: <1993Jan22.163518.13003@unocal.com> <1993Jan22.172028.150@ncar.ucar.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:04:24 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.172028.150@ncar.ucar.edu> ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern) writes:
- >On the other hand, my father gives a talk in which he shows these great
- >graphs correlating solar activity with a) storks nesting in chimneys
- >in Sweden, and b) the number of papers published by Sidney Chapman.
- >Correlation != causation.
- >
- >But it's certainly an interesting correlation. Want to propose a
- >mechanism?
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- Without sufficient controlled studies most speculations would be akin
- to astrology or numeralogy. However, this is the usenet :-)
-
- Solar energy output varies couple parts in thousand during a cycle.
- Perhaps the large oceans are sensitive to this.
-