Heresy! -NASA 2003!-----NASA News & Feature Releases: NASA Study Finds Increasing Solar Trend That Can Change Climate

NASA GISS: NASA News & Feature Releases: NASA Study Finds Increasing Solar Trend That Can Change Climate - Mar. 20, 2003

"Since the late 1970s, the amount of solar radiation the sun emits, during times of quiet sunspot activity, has increased by nearly .05 percent per decade, according to a NASA funded study.

• "This trend is important because, if sustained over many decades, it could cause significant climate change," said Richard Willson, a researcher affiliated with NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University's Earth Institute, New York...

"Historical records of solar activity indicate that solar radiation has been increasing since the late 19th century. 

If a trend, comparable to the one found in this study, persisted throughout the 20th century, it would have provided a significant component of the global warming the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports to have occurred over the past 100 years," he said...