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Carlomagno Avatar
Carlomagno
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Posted: 11.10.10, 02:54 PM
Could you please provide a reference to back-up that claim? It is in fact false:

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The contribution to the present dat atmospheric CO2 loading from volcanic emissions is, however, relatively insignificant, and it has been estimated that subaerial volcanism releases around 300 Mt/year CO2, equivalent to just 1% of anthropogenic emissions (Morner & Etiope, 2002).
See Vicky Hards, Volcanic Contributions to the Global Carbon Cycle, British Geological Survey, Sustainable and Renewable Energy Occasional Publication No. 10, 2005. Available at http://www.bgs.ac.uk/downloads/start.cfm?id=432

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Human activities, responsible for some 36,300 million metric tons of CO2 emissions in 2008 [Le Quéré et al., 2009], release at least a hundred times more CO2 annually than all the world’s degassing subaerial and submarine volcanoes (Gerlach, 2010).
See Volcanic Gases and Climate Change Overview on the US Geological Survey's website at http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hazards/gas/climate.php
Millennian Avatar
Millennian
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Posted: 10.12.10, 10:40 PM
I like the numbers, but I know that volcanoes and vulcanism causes 10,000 times more emmission pollution that the industrial and transportation pollutions together. And volcanoes are increasing in number and severity. Cap and trade would be credible except fossil fuels do not make up the majority of the pollution problem, based on my study of the environment.
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