I have coloured in the four areas of greatest vertical magnetic intensity shift. Red is the biggest decrease, blue is the highest increase. Courtesy of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1962. Below is the surface temperature change map, for the period 1995-2000, against a baseline of 1951-1980, courtesy of the Goddard institute of Space Science. Areas of no baseline data are grey. Note the extraordinary coincidence of the highest change areas (red and orange) on the two maps. The match would probably be even better if we had temperature data for the region west of the Antarctic Peninsula. That should end the curious notion that carbon dioxide is driving climate change. But it won't, religious dogma being first cousin to a mule. This is perhaps why solar storms and Milankovitch cycles link (imperfectly) to global temperature changes. Magnetic field shifts cause less deflection of incoming protons by the Earth's magnetosphere.Peter Ravenscroft, February, 2009.
