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Originally Posted by photon

How much it affects the earth's temperature is pretty straight forward when you're dealing with that level of things... total energy in minus energy reflected / emitted back out, there's nowhere else for it to go.

How it affects the temperature of the atmosphere or the ocean is far more complex because there are many factors that contribute to that.

But there are many papers that support the sun's contribution to current warming being small to minimal:

http://ieg.or.kr/abstractII/G0102523037.PDF
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/...901.0515v1.pdf
http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/StottEtAl.pdf
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009JGRD..11414101B

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ing-again.html