Ah, you're a tricky client! The article has a graph of sunspot numbers, not irradiance! So nothing contradicts anything, but that's not really important! We al

Ah, you're a tricky client! The article has a graph of sunspot numbers, not irradiance! So nothing contradicts anything, but that's not really important! We also have graphs of sun activity vs temperature! http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/solact.html http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/solact.htm... But wait! There's more! Here is a graph of sunspot numbers since 1880: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/couldnt-sun-be-cause-global-warming https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/couldnt-sun... It doesn't feature the global temperature, so it's not perfect, we're sorry! We're very sorry! But it's clearly constant and doesn't exhibit the hockey stick shape of global temperature.