I am creating a post that I am declining payment on. That is because this is not my work. This is the original document:
Investigation of possible connections between solar activity and climate change in Nigeria.
It was authored by Moses Owoicho Audu and Francisca Nneka Okeke and published in Springer Nature Switzerland AG (©) - 2019.
The reason is that I have seen scientific papers that have been withdrawn and some disappear because they contradict a political narrative. The least I can do is protect this paper on Steem, to prevent this from happening to this article.
To imagine what the paper is describing take a pop bottle, a candle and a few light feathers. Ignite the candle and place the bottle between you and the flame. Can you blow out the flame with the bottle in the way? The answer is yes. Your breath will hug the bottle and wrap around it to extinguish the flame. The second part of the experiment requires you to turn the bottle so that it is horizontal. Blow toward the bottle and drop the feathers from above the bottle. Will the feathers land on the bottle or will your breath force them away. Again your breath hugs the bottle and in doing so will push the feathers away. Your breath is the solar wind and the feathers represent cosmic particles.
A second important realization is that cosmic particles carry a charge. Just as when your clothing has a static charge it will attract dust, the cosmic particles attract water particles in the upper atmosphere to form clouds.
While this paper had a number of conclusions, many requiring additional research, it did have two important results.
Sunspot number and aa index varied in the opposite direction to with Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) based on the 11-year solar cycle. The higher the sunspots, the fewer GCRs penetrated the atmosphere and vice versa.
Low clouds have a significant correlation with rainfall, in contrast to high and middle clouds due to its composition. GCRs created low "cloud covers are associated with changes in temperature." This is probably due to an increase in Albedo and increased rainfall.
