  We argue that earth's short-term temperature anomalies and the solar flare
intermittency are linked. The analysis is based upon the study of the scaling
of both the spreading and the entropy of the diffusion generated by the
fluctuations of the temperature time series. The joint use of these two methods
evidences the presence of a L\'{e}vy component in the temporal persistence of
the temperature data sets that corresponds to the one that would be induced by
the solar flare intermittency. The mean monthly temperature datasets cover the
period from 1856 to 2002.
