Solar Activity and Earth's Climate

by Rasmus E. Benestad

In its revised 2nd edition, this book examines current understanding of the relationship between sunspots and the Earth's climate. Opening with a brief historical review, the text moves on to scrutinize the various current hypotheses. The focus is on how information on the solar cycle and Earth's climate is gathered, and includes discussion of observations, methododology and the physics involved, with the necessary statistics and analysis also provided.

342 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[J.P. · Rating 4 out of 5]

What I mostly got out of this book is hoo boy do a lot of studies on this topic contradict one another and more research is needed. The section on statistical theory was tough as overdone steak as advanced calculus was never my forte. Quadratic equations hie thee hence!