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Yes.

The overwhelming scientific consensus says human activities contribute to climate change and global warming (on average).

- interesting XKCD with the 20k year relative temperature curve
https://xkcd.com/1732/

- miscellaneous info on the NASA website
https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/


Despite the short term warming trend, I don't think there's consensus about where it'll end up in hundreds of thousands of years, though. There's historical precedents where it got significantly warmer and still cooled down. On the PETM 55 million years ago, CO2 rose to about 2000 ppm and temperatures got up to about +8ºC relative to current ones for about 200K years, but then over about 100K years it cooled back down:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Thermal_Maximum
http://www.xylenepower.com/PETM.htm

also note that we're apparently releasing CO2 into the atmosphere at 10x the rate of the PETM event:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110605132433.htm


and that the sea level at the time was over 50m higher than today:
http://pages.geo.wvu.edu/~kammer/g231/PETM.pdf (page 4)