Patenting software is good. Possession of relevant IPRs empowers the SME or individual. A patent is much more powerful in this respect than copyright. Though it is a neat article. Higher solar activity leads to lower cosmic ray flux and reduced cloud.
Low clouds cool the Earth by reflecting solar radiation back into space.
So a drop in the amount of low cloud contributes to an increased temperature on Earth. We must all hang together or most assuredly we will all hang separately. Select any of these three and you are immediately sent from a Low risk situation to a High risk one. A more elegant solution is to maintain a centralized database that client machines refer to for authentication. Both candidates need to step back and let it play out.