"Contributing to" would be the operative "weasel words" in your post.
You might want to, I don't know, actually read my post before accusing me of using weasel words.
I clearly said contributes to warming "an atmosphere", not "Earth's current atmosphere". There are any number of scientifically proven (there are those pesky concepts that seem to anoy you, "science" and "proof") ways in which a planetary body's atmosphere can be warmed or cooled. Intense geological activity, typically in the form of extreme volcanic activity, sudden and dramatic heating up or cooling of a star, asteroid impacts, and yes, changes in the levels of greenhouse gases (up or down). Most of those things occur early in a planet's life, or early or late in a solar systems life. You can make wild speculations, as you seem inclined to, about the science being inconclusive, but you certainly haven't brought any scientific facts to bear. That story about the polar bears - that's an anecdote, not science, by the way.
But the fact is, none of those things is happening on earth, other than an increase the greenhouse gases, caused by man, that are becoming trapped in our atmoshpere, causing a greenhouse effect - also called global warming.
The rest of your post makes it abundantly clear that you are not interested in the scientific facts at all, and are only interested in how they might impact your beliefs, idealogies, and political world view. I never, ever referred to "nasty fossil fuels". As Mike posted early, our entire civilisation is fueled by oil. All of it. In terms of my personal orbit, it is directly related to how I feed my family - I work in the oil and gas industry (not an offshoot, but BIG, BIG OIL. Really, really big.) And I drive a great big, 425 horse power HEMI Charger to and from said job. But unlike you, I can seperate my politics, my belief system, and the FACTS OF SCIENCE.
Want to know how we find the black gold, and get it out of the ground? Using SCIENCE!!!!! And fossil fuels! Yep, we burn the stuff in significant quantities in the process of extracting it, refining it, shipping it, etc. And as the stuff gets harder to find (because there is less of it that we can reach, unless you doubt that science as well), we expend an ever increasing about of energy to get less back.
I'm done trying to educate you. Your position is like a belief in unicorns - it is pointless for me to try to prove to you they don't exist, when you choose to "believe" that they do. Especially when you believe that an absence of readily available unicorns is because of the commies, or the tree huggers, or the dam gummint trying to keep you from your god-given right to unicorn ownership.
