And, a good reconstruction of temperatures back to the 1850’s will show global (or world-wide land) temperatures increased even more since then. So? We’ve been coming out of the Little Ice Age, and going back to “normal” all that time.
Whether global warming was (or even is) real isn’t that fraught a question, that climate change is real is not really an interesting proposition (the earth’s climate is a huge non-linear dynamical system, for it not to change would literally take a miracle in the strong Aristotelian sense of a complete violation of the laws of nature). The only interesting or important question is whether human activity is causing either, and the BEST study shows nothing of the sort.
It’s hardly surprising that AP hacks use Newspeak in which the phrases “global warming”, “climate change” and “anthropogenic global warming” all have identical meanings (meaning that each can be used to mean what it or the other two mean as suits the interests of the left, or the grant-hungry climatologist, at any given moment).
Plants, microbes, insects, fish, animals, and humans do influence the climate: mainly to greatly stabilize it. If the climate changes so does life on Earth to counteract the change. Without life the climate would be much more unstable and unsuitable for supporting life. For example ocean algae control cloud cover: Dimethylsulfide Emission: Climate Control by Marine Algae Trying to regulate the climate via restricting emissions of the trace gas CO2 is passive, expensive, and very ineffective.