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Yes there is. The influence of CO2 had previously been exaggerated, with more recent papers significantly reducing the believed impact on warming the atmosphere.
The diminishing return of increased CO2 has also been discovered, with increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere having less and less impact.
Actually, what new research is telling us is that most of the warming (~90%+) is occurring in the oceans. The amount of solar energy represented by extra heat in ocean temperatures is quite ridiculous.