Major x class solar flare

>to blow away cosmic rays from the earth, reducing could ion nucleation
Great point!
In fact those silly CAGW people often try to claim that sun could not be driving warming for the last 30 years up to 1998 since the sun’s activity been going the other way!
Talk about real foot in mouth here! The claim of this theory is in fact less sun activity = more warming. So in a really funny twist of humor those CAGW people are supporting this theory by claiming the sun been going in the wrong direction to explain the warming!
I have not seen the data that shows suns output was dropping up to 1998 over the previous 30 years, but if this is in fact the case, then this idea certainly needs more study.
Here is a short video that explains this inverse effect.

In the above, they used layers of sea sediments (diatoms) and even tree ring studies. They easily found this inverse relationship to the sun as has many other researchers and papers have.
Of course you cannot tax the sun, so such studies don’t receive much funding. So anything not blaming CO2 does not receive any real money these days.