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Originally Posted by blueash

I am not offering an opinion. I am offering to link you to evidence. Archeology is not climate science nor even earth science. Plate tectonics is a very interesting field of geology, but not climate science. Read the links I provided, use google to search for any evidence from any scientific source to support your statement that volcanoes produce more greenhouse gases than humans each year and report back.
I did not insult you. I called out a lie which you repeated. And I presented contemporary sources including the US government disproving your claim. You returned with the names of people none of whom have any expertise in climate science and in fact are geologists and archeologists. Again, find me a study supporting your "fact" None of these should be a paper showing that one eruption X years ago cause a temporary change in the weather. Yes that happens, but ongoing discharge from volcanoes is not a significant factor in the continuing rise of CO2 and the continuing rise in mean global temperature. Human activity is responsible for this, not volcanoes, not sunspots. And there are many many proposals as to what can be done to slow or hopefully reverse this trend. But until everyone is on board that this is real and it is humans, things will get worse.

For those who argue it is just cycles, no. Cycles are very slow over thousands of years. NASA has reported on this in a clear concise way. This change is rapid and not due to natural slow cycles. And for those who say, so what it is only 2 degrees centigrade. That is 4 degrees Fahrenheit. In a living system that is huge. If your temperature goes up 4 degrees something is very wrong. And 4 degrees from a base of 99 is a much smaller disruption than 4 degrees from a base of 57.

A disparaging remark was made about my quote: "education" Not appreciated. Also, My comment on Volcanoes said pollutants, not greenhouse gases. Spell check did me a disfavor, Dr. Holman was a Paleontologist. Both Paleontology and Archaeology can teach us about the past climate of the planet. How else do you think we've learned about the FACT that the Sahara was a verdant grassland 4,000 years ago and not a desert? Or that Greenland was just that 1,000 years ago? Or perhaps, as far as science has been able to determine, the warmest period in the recent past was approximately 50 million years ago with average temps almost 8 degrees F higher than today. This pre dates humans. Perhaps you should review an article from 49 NASA scientists calling out NASA for it's rush to judgement on human caused climate change. You may be unaware that the norm for this planet over the eons has been to be ice free. No ice caps, no glaciers. CO2 is only one part of this whole debate. As far as cycles, the Maunder Minimum solar cycle is a well known factor in climate on this planet and it does not happen over thousands of years. Finally, recall that I never said climate change was not real. On that we can agree if nothing else.