The Sun is responsible for warming the Earths surface. Energy is transmitted from the hot Plasma of the sun to Earth by means of the third mode of Heat Transfer which is Thermal Radiation. Man's use of Fossil Fuels results in pollution. Pollutants are not responsible for warming the earth. they add toxicity to it.
  
Jim
		Originally Posted by Mr MojoRisin
			
		
	
exactly. several of us has made this point before,  apparently it hasn't sunk in. well let's provide a link shall we? and  some pretty graphs! 
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu...mo/solact.html
pay particular attention to the time span here ... 
 
while emissions are a matter of pollution and
 should be dealt with as such, even  now, the largest driver of temperature are the solar cycles. a new  cycle is beginning and it will include a low cycle of solar activity ..  bringing a cooling effect. followed of course by another high cycle. 
the fact is, the so-called "hockey stick graph" of the doomsayers advocating "global warming" 
didn't happen ..  so now they call it "climate change" .. an ambiguous term so vague it  could mean that it might rain in the Sahara and be dry during the  Thailand monsoon season at the same time and be nothing more that what  it is .. a statistical fluke.   
at the end  of the day, even if we eliminated all forms of toxic pollutants into  the atmosphere .. there ain't shit we can do about the solar cycles and  their affect on temperature.