Glacier melting has not increased in speed at all since records started being kept. That's since 1840. A lot of fossil feul burning was being done in Western Alberta in the 1840s..
The earth is warming up, I don't think that's in any doubt. I have NEVER ONCE read anything conclusive saying that humans are totally responsible. We know that the results of fossil fuel burning COULD have an effect on it. We know that the earth has changed temperatures many times before, long before humans could have had anything to do with it. We know how much a volcano or other such thing can change the temperature of the globe (eg. Mount Tambora).
In my opinion, we are naive if we think that humanity can have a significant effect on the climate of the earth. Now, I'm not for polluting the earth at all, I think we desperately need to come up with cleaner ways of doing things, but only because we need to be good stewards of our planet, not because we need to save the climate. The climate will change, regardless of what we do.
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