Max, I agree with most of this, especially the end part, but would additionally advise against using short-term trends as indicators of anything, due to natural variability. Solar influences have been important in understanding other recent trends like the one up to the 1940′s and the LIA, possibly MWP. The Ice Ages are quite well understood in terms of Milankovitch cycles. The warmer paleoclimates are fairly well understood in terms of atmospheric carbon dioxide increases, including the Cretaceous period, 100 million years ago, which our CO2 levels will match by 2100. It is an interesting scientific field and an interesting time for today’s children to grow up in. In this century, our climate is going to change at a noticeable speed that will be a lesson to everyone.
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