..who woulda thunk this was possible?
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/357519.php
In a discovery scientists are calling "shocking," it turns out that solar output, that is, how much radiative heat the sun pumps out, is, get this, somewhat variable and changes over the years, and furthermore, changes in solar output may actually have effects in places as distant as -- well, let's say the Earth, for example.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/357519.php