I believe that our presence here, on earth, in the numbers that we have managed to achieve, coupled with the fact that we have destroyed millions upon millions of oxygen
producers (Trees) and have a penchant for asphalt and tarmac, which are very heat absorbing, and purposely keep reflective surfaces to a minimum (they're blinding) AND have created a civilization based on burning fossil
fuels and using other things which are detrimental to our ecology, that, yes, we are probably
responsible in large for the exelerated melting of the global ice... but, we have been in a state of warming since the last ice age ended... we just speeded up the process.
The Carbon Majors website is based on ground - breaking research on 90 entities (investor - owned, state - owned, and government - run fossil
fuel and cement
producers) that are
responsible for producing the
fuels that have resulted in 63 percent of the global cumulative emissions of industrial carbon dioxide and methane between 1751 and 2010.
We then present empirical evidence for the role of specific fossil
fuel corporations, including many of the 90 largest industrial carbon
producers whose products are
responsible for nearly two - thirds of all known industrial greenhouse gas emissions since 1751 (Heede 2014).