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Actually, no it cannot. Climate change does not "Produce" compounds that might increase temperatures, whereas industry most certainly does.
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You misinterpretted me. What I was saying is there is a link between temperature increase and the growth of industrialization. One can easily argue that the increase in temperature relates to a longer and more stable growing season for those growing on the American plains and up in norther Europe, where the major industrialization countries were placed. One can then use this corrolation to argue that the increased yield helped specialization and therefore education to increase the scientific breakthroughs we now know as the Industrial and Post-Industrial eras.
Much like how historians now cite the Black Plague as a major stepping stone on the path to the democratic and populist movements now encompassed as "Western Society." It's absurd at first to think of that, but the corrolation is there. The plague killed millions, an estimated 1/5-1/3 of the population. Nobility no longer had the serfs to work the fields, nor the ability to prevent the free movement of said workers. The peasants could now demand increased salary, better treatment, and more control over thier own lands. It became their own lands because the nobility no longer could control or maintain it, or their own expenses, so they sold or leased off the property. Suddenly the merchant class boomed, families rose and families fell. I'm not even going to go into the religious aspects of it, as the plague has even been cited as a justification for Luther's split with the papacy.