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Dr Willie Soon reveals the real driver of climate change in new video

By Tom Harris - posted Monday, 2 March 2026


https://science.nasa.gov/resource/graphic-temperature-vs-solar-activity/

It is this graph that has been misleading the public for years. It ignores the urban heat island effect, which is when cities and towns have higher temperatures due to the warming effects of asphalt, air conditioners, and other devices. To correct for this effect, it is important to use temperature readings from rural thermometers. If those temperatures are used, the following graph is obtained.

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012825215300349

This is certainly not the sharp rise in temperature prominently touted as evidence of human-induced warming. We have also found that this temperature record doesn't match well with the CO2 output. CO2 rose slowly up to the 1940s, whereas temperatures rose relatively sharply in the rural temperature record. "CO2 couldn't possibly have caused this temperature rise," Dr. Soon says. But then, when CO2 began to rise quickly after the 1940s, temperatures fell.

Since then, temperatures have risen, but not drastically. As we have seen in the graph above, current temperatures in the US are about the same as they were in the 1940s. Since CO2 isn't responsible for these temperature changes, what is? It's the Sun!

Looking further into the graph produced by the NASA press office (above), other NASA scientists revealed in a paper published in the journal Remote Sensing that the solar activity they displayed is not based on real satellite data but is a "model construction." Yet climate models have repeatedly been inaccurate and unable to properly model the climate. The authors instead introduced a well-respected record of solar variation over the past three hundred years and compared it to the rural temperature record. As seen in the graph below from Dr. Soon, with red indicating solar activity and blue temperature, the two lines follow very closely throughout the 1900s and early 2000s.

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Similar patterns can be seen in other countries and on different time scales. Dr. Soon has written several papers on this correlation, one of which can be seen here.

Dr. Soon concludes, "There is no way that rising CO2 can explain temperature changes on the Earth over the past century and a half." Rather, "Temperature changes over the past 120 years have the fingerprints of the Sun."

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Tom Harris is an Ottawa-based mechanical engineer and Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition.

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