I always kind of wondered why solar activity is so strangely absent from the climate change discussion.

Even though if you look at a graph of solar activity and temperature rises on Earth it matches almost identically, whereas it does not match human carbon use at all, even if you account for a "lag."

Not denying climate change or suggesting humans are totaly blameless, but this simple fact is roundly dismissed as not being important when the numbers and Earth history suggests they are of great importance.

It's really a wonder that life can survive and even thrive with the violent activity that takes place between the Sun and Earth. That the Earth has so many defense mechanisms that protect life convinces me further that the universe is structured for life. It's a life factory.

@1 It is not absent from the discussion. I'm unsure why you would suppose that to be the case.

You are correct that there's a correlation, but that jumps right off the rails in the last forty years, the timeframe in which the scale of human petrochemical activity starts to take off.

See: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hba…
Here's myth-debunking outline from a God-botherer: http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics…