[Red Badger]

Hence, my tagline..........

[RepublitarianRoger]

ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!

Funny, but not really true -- most of it wasn't in the atmosphere to begin with, it was in the solid ground -- unless you're talking about the Hadean Eon, when the Earth was (according to science) still an amorphous mass and hadn't yet solidified. There's a heck of a lot of carbon and other chemical crap that we've pulled out of solid ground and then burned, releasing its byproducts into the atmosphere.

No doubt, we are polluting the atmosphere in this manner. (All I need to do right now is walk out of my California home and look in any direction to see evidence of that.)

But whether this pollution is actually having any kind of measurable warming effect on the entire planet, I seriously doubt.