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CO2 and temperature have been in the same stable envelope since past 10 000 years and rise of civilization, until around 1980's.


Yes, and from around 3000BC to 1980 humanity has not been carbon neutral.


And atmospheric carbon dioxide has been creeping up very slowly for the last few thousand years until the industrial revolution where the chart really took off as both carbon-per-capita and population started growing quickly: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/CO2_40k....




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