Reply to Lockwood and Fröhlich – The persistent role of the Sun in climate forcing

Here is a link to Svensmark's and Fris-Christensen's reply to Lockwood's and Frohlich's criticism of the former's work on the important role of the Sun, as opposed to CO2, in climate.

Apparently, the critics of the importance of the Sun in climate are wrong.

Here is an excerpts.
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In a recent paper (ref. [1]) Mike Lockwood and Claus Frohlich have argued that recent trends in solar climate forcing have been in the wrong direction to account for ”the observed rapid rise in global mean temperatures”. These authors accept that ”there is considerable evidence for solar influence on Earth’s pre-industrial climate and the Sun may well have been a factor in post-industrial climate change in the first half of the last century.” But they argue that this historical link between the Sun and climate came to an end about 20 years ago. Here we rebut their argument comprehensively.