Solar magnetic variability as a possible source of variations in the global air temperature

It has been shown that the quasi-five-year and long-term (with a duration o f several years) variations in the global air temperature are related to co smic effects, whose intensity is modulated by the Ii-year solar cycle. Thes e cosmic factors are shown to affect atmospheric processes, as a result of which the temperature response lags behind the variations in the parameters of these factors by 1.8 yr, on average. Such an effect can be exerted on t he atmospheric circulation by high-energy particles of solar flares and cos mic rays. The effect of the anthropogenic factor on the near-Earth air temp erature has apparently increased beginning with the 1980s, resulting in an additional temperature rise by 0.015 K/yr, on the average, during the perio d from 1983 to 1995.