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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is awfully certain that solar activity doesn't meaningfully impact climate. In fact, their 2014 Synthesis Report Summary for Policymakers offers only one passing reference to solar activity in the entire document. On page 10, the report notes a curious caveat regarding predicted surface temperatures from 2016‚Äì2035: "This assumes that there will be no major volcanic eruptions …or unexpected changes in total solar irradiance." Other than that, solar variability is essentially dismissed in the IPCC worldview. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the primary driver of climate change, and that's that.https://climatechangedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/images_pics8_earth-stratosphere.jpg