"Version: 20190401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.2. Carbon burning has 'engineered' a new era of high temperature and high sea level -- 2.1. Radiation balance sets Earth temperature -- 2.2. The greenhouse gas discoveries of Tyndall and Arrhenius -- 2.3. Carbon dioxide rose during the foss…