Yep! They, and plenty of other suspects are the technical cause. But I’m always haunted by the question behind that technical causal level: Why are we doing these things: letting loose the sequestered hydrocarbons into the atmosphere, and generally screwing up the environment with wilful toxins which nobody really needs?
And I keep getting this fanciful thought: that that’s what Mam G needs, as an agency for rebalancing the life-systems of her planet; of whose state of health she always seems to be keenly aware…
More atmospheric CO2, to counter the long-term ebbing away of it that has been happening for millions of years now, and which was getting so low that it threatened the continuation of photosynthesis. And more contraceptive agents, to deal with this very temporary little local difficulty of our current population-overshoot episode (itself a by-product of our recent fossil hydrocarbon fuel splurge)? Wheels within wheels…?
Of course, you have to subscribe to Rupert Sheldrake’s suspicion that bodies like the Sun and the Earth are actually live - and sentient! - beings, to be able to entertain such loopy ideas, natch… 