Relationship of Multidecadal Global Temperatures to Multidecadal Oceanic Oscillations

Abstract Evidence shows that observed climate changes can be explained by natural factors, including secular changes in multidecadal cycles in the oceans and solar activity. The correlation of two decades of climate changes in the 1980 and 1990s to increasing CO 2 is coincidental, as five of the last seven decades since the beginning of the boom following the end of World War II have actually seen temperature cool or remain steady even as CO 2 increased. Multidecadal cycles in the ocean correlate with the frequency and strength of the shorter-term El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) phases and through them, U.S. temperatures. Total solar irradiance is shown to vary with both these multidecadal ocean cycles and thus the temperatures, suggesting that the sun is the ultimate driver.