Please spare me the religious claptrap, the lessons of ethnic histories, and the holier than thou pronouncements of the alleged real meaning of this time of year.
More religious claptrap, read some history and find out that santorums lot (the catholic church) executed whole societies in south America simply because those poor ignorant people had a different religion.
Roy Spencer's internal radiative forcing claptrap and Richard S. Lindzen's iris hypothesis are not «solid scientific issues,» they are denialist pseudo-science, made up to suit religious extremism (Spencer) and oil & coal paymasters (Lindzen).