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Specifically this post (which I really don't feel like retyping)
I'm not going to say that environmental polution doesn't contribute negatively to a world climatic system. However, to blame the current cycle of global warming on human intervention alone is shortsighted, and frankly, wrong.
Think about the change in climate since the "last Ice Age", which, if you want to get technical, we are still in. The last Ice age was merely the most recent surger in a boom-and-bust cycle of glaciations and deglaciations going back some 2.6 milllion years. It's this longer cycle that is really the Ice Age. The process of deglaciation after 17,000 years ago was extremely rapid, being largely over within 10,000 years, but not far beyond the norm set by previous deglaciations. Likewise, the relatively congenial conditions that we have enjoyed during the 7000 years since then are perhaps a little better than those in some previous interglacials, but not spectacularly so. The rise in world temperature is actually a normally functioning part of this cycle of world deglaciation.
Many factors can affect this change, earth's precessional cycles, asteroid/comet terrestrial impact, volcanism, shifts in the earth's mantle. Like I said, the entire global warming process is most CERTAINLY not the work of insignificant little humans, but part of a much larger process. Sure, what we do can be destructive to the environment, and can contribute in a NEGATIVE WAY to global climate, but it is BY NO MEANS the reason. That would be like saying a running hose would be fully responsible for an entire city flooding (when it was really caused by rain).
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