Science Daily reports on the recent results of a study by a Swiss-Russian research team showing a strong correlation between solar activity and temperatures in Siberia during the period 1250-1850.

This is an extremely interesting finding since scientists have long suspected a link between the two. But the evidence is rather difficult to gather, as seen in previous studies.

“An ice core drilled at the Belukha glacier in the Siberian Altai by a Swiss-Russian research team under the leadership of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in 2001 has now provided new findings in climate research. Oxygen isotopes in the ice were used to reconstruct the temperatures in the Altai over the past 750 years. The scientists discovered a strong link between regional temperatures and the solar activity in the period 1250-1850, concluding that the sun was an important driver of preindustrial temperature changes in the Altai.”

Full story in Science Daily.

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