Answer: We may only emit about 4% of total emissions, while the natural environment emits the other 96%. But the thing is the natural environment adds and takes out CO2 from the system in roughly equal amounts (at least in the short and medium term). We only add it. We are adding so much of it that the environment can only absorb about half of it, thus the rapid increase in CO2 levels, thus the rapid increase in temperatures.
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