We hold the atmosphere as sacred. Despite our admiration of and addiction to it, we have likely dealt it an overdose of wrong by spewing our highly human Industrial Revolution gases in its face. But is that abuse behind the over-warming skies above? A growing legion of dang bright scientists are now professing that the atmosphere is doing exactly what the planet – not the people – expects of it.

Rapidly emerging assumption: The very real atmospheric warm-up is one of those natural things, which come along every few eons or so, fueled by the Earth’s…