Originally Posted by accountinquestion View Post

Fossil fuels were created over a process of millions of years. Mankind has taken a large portion of that over the past 100 years and dumped it into the atmosphere via burning. It should not be shocking that scientists believe this also is causing the rapid increase in temperature.
So you're saying that that is the main cause then, rather than non-industrial processes ? You are agreeing that non-industrial processes are capable of heating earth to the extent observed and, at the same time, saying that the current heating is due to Man or not ? Rapid heating has been observed pre-industrially. So much so that the Silurian hypothesis was put forth. I think this hypothesis is far-fetched and that it is much more likely that the rapid heating in ancient times was not due to earlier advanced terrestrial civilizations but due to causes that don't require the presence of an advanced civilization.