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Originally Posted by Bill14564
From USGS courtesy of Scientific American:
According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the world’s volcanoes, both on land and undersea, generate about 200 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually, while our automotive and industrial activities cause some 24 billion tons of CO2 emissions every year worldwide. Despite the arguments to the contrary, the facts speak for themselves: Greenhouse gas emissions from volcanoes comprise less than one percent of those generated by today’s human endeavors. But of course, those are simply two more sources that are manipulating data in support of the Global Warming Alarmists. |
Except, volcanic eruptions are infrequent and usually small scale. On the other hand, let's take Krakatoa-----the years following it's eruption we're among the coolest of the last 200 years, including the blizzard of '88. We were talking pollution,
NOT CO2. Then there was Vesuvius and Santorini