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A litany of research has been published claiming strong solar influences onthe Earth's weather and climate. Much of this work includes documented errorsand false-positives, yet is still frequently used to substantiate arguments ofglobal warming denial. This manuscript reports on a recent study by Badruddin &Aslam (2014), hereafter BA14, which claimed a highly significant($p=1.4\times10^{-5}$) relationship between extremes in the intensity of theIndian monsoon and the cosmic ray flux. They further speculated that therelationship they observed may apply across the entire tropical andsub-tropical belt, and be of global importance. However, their statisticalanalysis---and consequently their conclusions---were wrong. Specifically, theirerror resulted from an assumption that their data's underlying distribution wasGaussian. But, as demonstrated in this work, their data closely follow anergodic chaotic distribution biased towards extreme values. From a probabilitydensity function, calculated using a Monte Carlo sampling approach, I estimatethe true significance of the BA14 samples to be $p=0.91$.

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