Opposing Theories Hold that Changes in Solar Intensity and Activity Cause Incessant Changes in Global Temperature, Which in turn Causes Natural Changes in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Content

Opposing theories hold that changes in solar intensity and activity cause incessant changes in global temperature, which in turn causes natural changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide content. These changes dominate, to the extent that it is impossible to discern any effect on the climate or on atmospheric carbon dioxide from man-made greenhouse gases. The theories provide a clear explanation for the roller coaster behavior of global temperature over centuries and millennia.

These alternative explanations are not satisfactory to the followers of the greenhouse disaster scenario teachings. If the current warming is just as natural as those that went before, there is no role for politics. The greenhouse hypothesis is politically correct, demands a political solution to the "warming problem" and refers to all other notions as "minority views." The greenhouse hypothesis is pursued as a goal in itself; science becomes politics as majority rule is accepted in determining scientific issues.

--M. Mihkel Mathiesen, Global Warming in a Politically Correct Climate: How Truth Became Controversial (New York: iUniverse Star, 2004), 71.