Canuck wrote:
"Lassen's work (who, by the way, is Dr. Knud Lassen, with theDanish Meteorological Institute, Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division) is hosted on the tgmnow site"

Irrelevant. The site is not authoritative. Consider this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/734983.stm
"Research into the Sun's role in recent warming of the Earth's atmosphere indicates that it probably plays a relatively small part.

The research, by two Danish meteorologists, suggests another factor is involved - probably human activity."

Guess who one of the two Danes is?

DA Morgan