Sunspot activity and wheat prices

[melvill]

Believe it there seems to be a link.
Read:

http://arxiv.org/ftp/astro-ph/papers/0312/0312244.pdf

Now whether to believe it or not . . . . 'cause stats can be manipulated.

[FarmRanger]

Interesting, I wonder if you could correlate current sunspot activity with biomass production? They linked wheat price to solar activity, but that link would be due to increased, or decreased wheat seed production. With so many other "noise" factors to influence wheat prices, maybe they should look at biomass production to see if the correlation continues into modern times.

It was interesting how they linked sunspot activity to cloud formation as well.
On the other hand, Mark Twain’s observance about statistics and the 3 kinds of lies, may apply here.