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Volcanoes are most likely cause of Global warming

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Thursday July 29, 2004 13:38

by righteous pragmatist

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Human activity just doesn't measure up.

Environmentalist claim that the increase in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere are the result of human activity.

Yet this ignores the FACT that a single volcanic eruption produces more of these gases than the entire wood, coal and oil burned by human in all of human history.

Just remember that explosion of Mount Saint Helen in the early nineteen eighties?
The entire mountain top blew off and vast quantities of dust were blown into the upper atmosphere.
How much gas from the centre of the earth was released? How much BURNING actually occured when that catastrophy occured?
There have been dozens of eruptions world wide since then and some active volcanoes release gas of vast proportions annually.

Compared to how much emissions humans create with the internal combustion engine we don't even make a difference to the environment.

That's not to say we shouldn't conserve our oil reserves by being more efficient in the design of our engines and our dependency on it as fuel - its is gradually running out.

BUT to make the claim that human activity is seriouslt altering the atmosphere while IGNORING a colossal source of these gases - volcanic activity - is absurd in the extreme.

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Comments (46 of 46)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	Doh!	kokomero	Thu Jul 29, 2004 15:01
2	Ice Caps melting	Cian	Thu Jul 29, 2004 15:08
3	Science stuff	Joe	Thu Jul 29, 2004 15:22
4	Hmm..	Cian	Thu Jul 29, 2004 15:34
5	eureka-ka-ka-ka	Cian	Thu Jul 29, 2004 15:36
6	A more complete description of ice caps	Mike	Thu Jul 29, 2004 16:12
7	Righteous Pragmatist annoying disseminator of Right wing opinion u might be but Vulcanist you're not	iosaf	Thu Jul 29, 2004 16:43
8	something fishy bout dis	skeptical dreamer	Thu Jul 29, 2004 16:58
9	volcanoes are innocent	ronald reagan	Thu Jul 29, 2004 18:17
10	Volcanoes	E$$O boy	Thu Jul 29, 2004 19:05
11	average person...	average person	Thu Jul 29, 2004 19:09
12	Proof. The expert scientist settles it.	Oillie Burns	Thu Jul 29, 2004 19:17
13	Ah, no.	E$$O Boy	Thu Jul 29, 2004 20:50
14	Expert opinion	David C.	Thu Jul 29, 2004 21:04
15	Volcanoes: Part of the Axis of Evil	a guy called satan	Thu Jul 29, 2004 22:22
16	Re: Volcanoes are most likely cause of Global warming	Terry	Thu Jul 29, 2004 23:42
17	interesting theory	Fact-checker	Fri Jul 30, 2004 15:15
18	Is it a 'fact'? or a 'FACT'?	proveit	Fri Jul 30, 2004 16:01
19	ICE CAPS	Aidan Clear	Sun Aug 01, 2004 08:38
20	Oil Company's and CO2	Aidan Clear	Sun Aug 01, 2004 08:41
21	CO2s influence on atmospheric temperature	Aidan Clear	Sun Aug 01, 2004 09:03
22	ice	jeff	Sun Aug 01, 2004 18:01
23	Where are you getting your facts from?	Akrasia	Sun Aug 01, 2004 19:20
24	-aidan clear "I'm not aware of any effect thousand times more...."	giggling iosaf	Sun Aug 01, 2004 20:15
25	Where are you getting your facts from?	Aidan Clear	Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:56
26	Pacific Sea levels	Aidan Clear	Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:28
27	Kilaminjaro	Aidan Clear	Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:32
28	giggling iosaf	Aidan Clear	Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:36
29	false logic	hmmm	Thu Aug 05, 2004 20:27
30	What's at the bottom of the Glacier	Aidan Clear	Sat Aug 07, 2004 15:32
31	correction	Aidan Clear	Sat Aug 07, 2004 16:31
32	Sorry aiden, you're wrong	Akrasia	Sat Aug 07, 2004 17:18
33	Are you a total fool?	Ha HA!	Sat Aug 07, 2004 21:15
34	Who's logic is faulty?	KD	Tue Aug 10, 2004 05:37
35	floating ice is not the problem.	Mark Morrow	Fri Sep 24, 2004 01:03
36	MARK MORROW	ICE MAN	Fri Sep 24, 2004 01:11
37	it's not just the quantity of water.	lava lamp	Fri Sep 24, 2004 15:36
38	Who wrote that article??	Steve	Fri Oct 08, 2004 03:22
39	Ice and water	Doug	Sat Feb 19, 2005 12:56
40	atlantic conveyor	mise	Sun Feb 20, 2005 12:18
41	HaHahahahahahaha...	hahaha	Wed May 24, 2006 14:45
42	Man's impact	Con	Mon Mar 23, 2009 23:59
43	I know it's good clean fun but maybe do some research before attacking each other	VulcanologistSpock	Tue Mar 24, 2009 07:13
44	Meltdown.	The Penguin	Tue Mar 24, 2009 13:54
45	CO2 concentration.	Venusian.	Tue Mar 24, 2009 14:21
46	Scarey Graph.	Scared.	Tue Mar 24, 2009 14:34

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