Global warming- is the WSJ accurate in saying that "Altering the Earth’s temperature, of course, is hardly anything new."?

Global warming- is the WSJ accurate in saying that "Altering the Earth’s temperature, of course, is hardly anything new."?
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I think it’s a poor choice of words and some bad writing. I don’t think they actually meant that humans have been altering the Earth’s temperature for thousands of years.
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