CBS News: Changes in the sun's solar activity do not significantly impact global temperatures, according to physicists Terry Sloan, of the University of Lancaster, and Arnold Wolfendale, of the University of Durham.
In an analysis of two data sets that date to the 1950s, Wolfendale and Sloan looked at the rates at which cosmic rays, or streams of charged particles, reach the Earth.
The rates vary according to the sun's natural 11-year cycle. Every 11 years, the sun goes through a makeover of sorts, as...