Background: Climate change has been at the center of a global debate. Given its relationship to energy utilization, it is important to gain a better understanding of what truly drives climate change. While many now accept man-made climate change as a given, Nersesian (2016) offers a different perspective on the matter. According to Roy L. Nersesian climate change is continual with warming and cooling cycles, and within these cycles weather patterns change significantly. Treating climate change strictly as a twentieth and twenty-first-century phenomenon that started with burning fossil fuels is absurd.

Carbon dioxide rising simultaneously with temperature is not a persuasive argument that carbon dioxide is a cause of global warming. To the degree that carbon dioxide lags temperature, then the inference is that carbon dioxide does not cause global warming, but is a consequence of higher temperatures. The mechanism that would cause carbon dioxide to lag a rise in temperatures would be warming oceans giving up some of their carbon dioxide content. Methane seemed to follow temperatures better than carbon dioxide throughout [the most recent] 160,000-year climate history.

Simply put, Nersesian claims that climate change is not a product of mankinds use of fossil fuels.

Instructions:  validate or refute his claim using credible sources (including Nersesian). Stating and defending the conclusion.  Whichever position is presented, must be fully committed to throughout the document with NO middle ground!