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This chart shows possible correlations between sunspot activity and (inverted) delta ¹⁴C. It is claimed that there is a 20 to 60 year gap between sunspot activity and response in the carbon record.

[edit] Copyright

This figure was produced by Leland McInnes using gnuplot and is licensed under the GFDL. All data is from publicly available sources.

I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
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[edit] Data Sources

(black) Carbon 14 data: http://depts.washington.edu/qil/datasets/intcal98_14c.txt
(blue) Sunspot data: http://sidc.oma.be/DATA/monthssn.dat

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(del) (cur) 03:30, 7 February 2006 . . Leland McInnes (Talk | contribs) . . 1250×875 (140,562 bytes) (This chart shows possible correlations between sunspot activity and (inverted) delta <sup>14</sup>C. It is claimed that there is a 20 to 60 year gap between sunspot activity and response in the carbon record.)