Abstract

A tendency has been detected in the last few years for the signs of long-term trends to vary in a number of the main factors by which secular cycles of the sun's activity affect the weather-climate system. The sign changes in the trends of the water vapor and ozone concentrations in the atmosphere coincided with this variation. This paper discusses the radio-optical mechanism of the action of solar-geomagnetic activity and the optical mechanism by which galactic cosmic rays affect global climate warming via regulation of the transparency of the atmosphere.

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