Notable Quote: Expert Consensus on the Weather - Granite Grok

Notable Quote: Expert Consensus on the Weather

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A LINK between sunspot activity and the weather on earth has long seemed tantalizingly plausible, even self-evident. But try as they might, scientists have not until lately been able to substantiate it.

Now a consensus is emerging that there is a statistical correlation between sunspots and the weather. Acting on the consensus, American meteorologists are about to put the findings to work in an attempt, starting next winter, to improve the Government’s long-term weather forecasts.

New York Times, June 13th, 1989

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