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The impact of solar radiation and solar activity on climate variability after the end of the last glaciation

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This paper analyzes climate changes since the end of the last glaciations 19–20 thousand years ago, including the modern warm interglacial Holocene age, which started about 11.5 thousand years ago. The connection between the impact of the orbital effect and solar activity on the Earth’s climate is studied. This is important for estimation of the duration of the modern interglacial period. It is shown that there is significant inconsistency between temperature variations in Holocene, which is deduced from the large amount of recently obtained indirect data and the temperatures reproduced in the climate models. The trends of climate cooling in the Holocene on the whole and during the last 2000 years are investigated.

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Dergachev, V.A. The impact of solar radiation and solar activity on climate variability after the end of the last glaciation. Geomagn. Aeron. 56, 908–913 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793216070033

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