william the wie
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The available records for sunspots, solar eclipses and lunar eclipses go back thousands of years. The extant Chinese records seem to indicate the use of pinhole cameras in the first century BC. So insolation vs. subsequent weather and agricutural output has about a 2100 year baseline. The technique does seem to work.