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Timmah! said:

Yeah, solar activity really doesn't map well to temperature...

 Not at all.


Again, the 1980-2007 data is missing, because the author knows the fast warming in that period can't be explained with variation in solar activity. The temperature in the pic seems to be that of northern hemisphere, because worldwide temperatures stayed roughly the same from 1950 to 1970. From that point on, the greenhouse(+) and aerosol emission(-) forcings became more and more evident.

Here are the warming curves from NH, SH and combined: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/nhshgl.gif