Sam Hall's The Busy Worker’s Handbook to the Apocalypse has highlighted a fresh hell: a solar cycle anomaly will temporarily accelerate global warming.

As Sam writes:

The solar cycle is a regular and predictable 11 year cycle of sunspot activity related to the reversal of the sun’s polarity. The intensity can vary significantly, and the current cycle is already far exceeding predicted activity levels with 2 years still to go before it reaches its maximum.

On March 13th, helio-observers recorded a very strong coronal mass ejection (CME) on the scale of the Carrington Event which luckily was aimed away from earth. [Leon] Simons has stated a strong solar maximum could cause 0.2°C of temporary global warming over the next few years [emphasis added].

And as we head into an El Niño that has already seen 4 days in a row of the hottest days on record, that looks to be the case.

References:

1. Sam Hall — The Busy Worker’s Handbook to the Apocalypse
   1. Space Weather Prediction Center — Solar Cycle Progression
2. ABC News — Earth reaches hottest day ever recorded 4 days in a row
   1. Climate Reanalyzer — Daily 2-meter Air Temperature