Or if you don’t use a smoothed averaged-sliding-window for everything except the most recent datapoints you’re trying to draw attention to?
If you do that you realize we're approaching temperatures that the planet hasn't seen in about 5 million years. [0]
0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m...
Sans humans, surely the earth systems would be slowly creeping back towrads more and more ice ... at least by the pattern of glacial advance and retreat in this current long term (million year) age of mini ice cycles.
But it's not, is it?
Instead the sea | earth surface layer is getting hotter, much hotter than expected and on a rapid (by geological time) scale.
This is entirely due to human activity as our population has rapidly expanded in the past 100 years and our resource consumption has exploded to match, dragging up carbon that took millions of years to lay down and more to bury deep.
The pressure this presents on human day to day existence is pressing down fast, we've become more and more dependant on daily movements of food and energy that are critically reliant on everything being "just so" - as much as we might kid ourselves we do not have robust supply chains that can rapidly adapt to the challenge of feeding a billion people if broad area cropping zones tip and become non productive for a decade or more.
Very people are panicing about the fate of the planet on a thousand year time scale - it's a pretty rubust orbiting mass.
Sensible people are concerned about the future of humans on the scale of a hundred years.
It takes planning and coordination to ride such things out with minimal impact.
Similarly, climate change isn't a threat to life on earth as we know it, but it does inconvenience a few species. And asking people to move to another country because you drowned their island or burnt their city isn't a great way to make friends.
By and large the Earth is a big wet rock that suffers a variety of misfortunes from time to time, and it tends to suck for things living on it during those times. Climate change just happens to be one of those periods of unpleasantness, except this one is human caused and happens on a human timescale. If humans sent a asteroid hurting towards ourselves, to hit us in a few decades, you'd probably see a few protests and strongly worded science studies about that too.
But there is plenty of evidence that it is. Peter Ward has done some great work (and plenty of geologists agree) that most of the planets mass extinction events are triggered by rapid rises in CO2 leading to abrupt climate change and mass die offs.
The big difference with our current situation is that the CO2 is being released much faster than in previous extinction events.
As to your main question, I don't see the same conclusion from the data. "Relatively slow" to what? We do have a good understanding of how greenhouse gasses work, and the data for glacial loss is correlated with gas emissions very tightly. I should probably dive into the most up to date data rather than use nebulous words like "very" and "good", but my stance is built on quite a bit of research into it a decade ago while pursuing an Atmospheric Sciences degree, so unless there's been new information that completely changes our understanding, I'd say it still carries weight.
Disclaimer: Yes, human greenhouse gas emissions contribute to climate change etc etc. Yes we should be moving away from fossil fuels. I wholeheartedly agree with all the correct views. But even the most conservative napkin math on the average loss of ice that occurred long before humans were emitting with more than a few thousand campfires globally is orders of magnitude more than we observe now. And that ignores the fact that melt rate accelerates as mass decreases for ice, which would be expected if humans never existed in the first place.