  A litany of research has been published claiming strong solar influences on
the Earth's weather and climate. Much of this work includes documented errors
and false-positives, yet is still frequently used to substantiate arguments of
global 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 the
Indian monsoon and the cosmic ray flux. They further speculated that the
relationship they observed may apply across the entire tropical and
sub-tropical belt, and be of global importance. However, their statistical
analysis---and consequently their conclusions---were wrong. Specifically, their
error resulted from an assumption that their data's underlying distribution was
Gaussian. But, as demonstrated in this work, their data closely follow an
ergodic chaotic distribution biased towards extreme values. From a probability
density function, calculated using a Monte Carlo sampling approach, I estimate
the true significance of the BA14 samples to be $p=0.91$.
