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Is the brightening of Neptune supposed to confirm or disprove solar caused global warming? It's not clear to me from what you've written.
It would seem to me that given our relative ignorance (I would argue massive ignorance) of the outer planets that a change in Neptune's brightness could be the result of any number of phenomena, and would have little bearing on any discernible warming of other planets.