Comrade Druedahl points out that Baker turns the argument completely around and wants to prove the non-existence of climate change from the philosophy of dialectics, something which cannot be done.
In contributing to the debate, Mike Palecek states that, "The idea that we could rule out solar activity as a factor in the climate of this planet is absurd, but this is the false dichotomy that is presented by global warming deniers. They misrepresent the consensus position among climatologists by reducing their understanding of contributing factors to CO2 and CO2 alone.