1,500 active volcanos worldwide with the majority on the Pacific 'ring of fire'

[longknife]

The World’s Volcanic Past and Future
By Alan Caruba Thursday, February 20, 2014

While Americans coped with massive snowfalls in the South, Midwest and Northeast, a dramatic volcanic eruption occurred on February 13th in Indonesia when Mount Kelud in the province of East Java erupted so loudly it could be heard 120 miles away.

It is one of 130 volcanos in the world’s fourth most populous nation, located on the “ring of fire” volcanic belt around the shores of the Pacific Ocean. About 200,000 people were affected and more than 76,000 had to be evacuated according to Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency. The affect was dramatic, shutting down an airport in Indonesia’s second largest city, Surabaya, a major industrial center, along with those in five other cities as well as a major oil refinery that provides more than a third of Indonesia’s total output of refined products

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So, we make big noises about “Manmade Global Climate Change” and totally ignore the billions of tons of gas and ash spewed into the atmosphere by Ma Nature. Didn't the eruption of one volcano cause a mini Ice Age for a year back in the 1800s? And what about the recent eruption of the volcano in Iceland? Are the politicians now going to come up with some scheme to control volcanic eruptions – claiming they are Man's fault?

Read more @ The World?s Volcanic Past and Future

 

[Katzndogz]

Isn't that global warming or something?

 

[longknife]

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Isn't that global warming or something?

/thread

Darn it!!!

I was gonna say that!

 

[mamooth]

So, we make big noises about “Manmade Global Climate Change” and totally ignore the billions of tons of gas and ash spewed into the atmosphere by Ma Nature.

Where do you come up with such nonsense? Rest assured, nobody ignores volcanoes.

Back in the real world, human CO2 emissions are around a hundred times of the CO2 emitted by volcanoes. We know that because we didn't ignore measuring it. Most denialists will have no idea that's the case, of course, because their cult either didn't tell them, or deliberately misinformed them.

 

[Old Rocks]

The World’s Volcanic Past and Future
By Alan Caruba Thursday, February 20, 2014

While Americans coped with massive snowfalls in the South, Midwest and Northeast, a dramatic volcanic eruption occurred on February 13th in Indonesia when Mount Kelud in the province of East Java erupted so loudly it could be heard 120 miles away.

It is one of 130 volcanos in the world’s fourth most populous nation, located on the “ring of fire” volcanic belt around the shores of the Pacific Ocean. About 200,000 people were affected and more than 76,000 had to be evacuated according to Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency. The affect was dramatic, shutting down an airport in Indonesia’s second largest city, Surabaya, a major industrial center, along with those in five other cities as well as a major oil refinery that provides more than a third of Indonesia’s total output of refined products

.

So, we make big noises about “Manmade Global Climate Change” and totally ignore the billions of tons of gas and ash spewed into the atmosphere by Ma Nature. Didn't the eruption of one volcano cause a mini Ice Age for a year back in the 1800s? And what about the recent eruption of the volcano in Iceland? Are the politicians now going to come up with some scheme to control volcanic eruptions – claiming they are Man's fault?

Read more @ The World?s Volcanic Past and Future

Since geologists have been in the forefront of recognition of the affects of adding GHGs to the atmosphere, they would be the first to state that volcanoes were having a major affect on the worlds weather. They can, as did Tambora in 1816, cause a brief cooling. But the sulphates and very fine silicates leave the atmosphere in 5 years or less. Usually about 2 years.

As far as GHGs are concerned, all the volcanoes worldwide contribute less than 1% of the amount that mankind put into the atmosphere.

Which produces more CO2, volcanic or human activity?

Carbon dioxide is released when magma rises from the depths of the Earth on its way to the surface. Our studies here at Kilauea show that the eruption discharges between 8,000 and 30,000 metric tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere each day. Actively erupting volcanoes release much more CO2 than sleeping ones do.

Gas studies at volcanoes worldwide have helped volcanologists tally up a global volcanic CO2 budget in the same way that nations around the globe have cooperated to determine how much CO2 is released by human activity through the burning of fossil fuels. Our studies show that globally, volcanoes on land and under the sea release a total of about 200 million tonnes of CO2 annually.

This seems like a huge amount of CO2, but a visit to the U.S. Department of Energy's Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) website (Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)) helps anyone armed with a handheld calculator and a high school chemistry text put the volcanic CO2 tally into perspective. Because while 200 million tonnes of CO2 is large, the global fossil fuel CO2 emissions for 2003 tipped the scales at 26.8 billion tonnes. Thus, not only does volcanic CO2 not dwarf that of human activity, it actually comprises less than 1 percent of that value.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

So, we make big noises about “Manmade Global Climate Change” and totally ignore the billions of tons of gas and ash spewed into the atmosphere by Ma Nature.

Where do you come up with such nonsense? Rest assured, nobody ignores volcanoes.

Back in the real world, human CO2 emissions are around a hundred times of the CO2 emitted by volcanoes. We know that because we didn't ignore measuring it. Most denialists will have no idea that's the case, of course, because their cult either didn't tell them, or deliberately misinformed them.

^ Snorts the AGWCult Kool-Aid straight out of the can

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The World’s Volcanic Past and Future
By Alan Caruba Thursday, February 20, 2014

While Americans coped with massive snowfalls in the South, Midwest and Northeast, a dramatic volcanic eruption occurred on February 13th in Indonesia when Mount Kelud in the province of East Java erupted so loudly it could be heard 120 miles away.

It is one of 130 volcanos in the world’s fourth most populous nation, located on the “ring of fire” volcanic belt around the shores of the Pacific Ocean. About 200,000 people were affected and more than 76,000 had to be evacuated according to Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency. The affect was dramatic, shutting down an airport in Indonesia’s second largest city, Surabaya, a major industrial center, along with those in five other cities as well as a major oil refinery that provides more than a third of Indonesia’s total output of refined products

.

So, we make big noises about “Manmade Global Climate Change” and totally ignore the billions of tons of gas and ash spewed into the atmosphere by Ma Nature. Didn't the eruption of one volcano cause a mini Ice Age for a year back in the 1800s? And what about the recent eruption of the volcano in Iceland? Are the politicians now going to come up with some scheme to control volcanic eruptions – claiming they are Man's fault?

Read more @ The World?s Volcanic Past and Future

Since geologists have been in the forefront of recognition of the affects of adding GHGs to the atmosphere, they would be the first to state that volcanoes were having a major affect on the worlds weather. They can, as did Tambora in 1816, cause a brief cooling. But the sulphates and very fine silicates leave the atmosphere in 5 years or less. Usually about 2 years.

As far as GHGs are concerned, all the volcanoes worldwide contribute less than 1% of the amount that mankind put into the atmosphere.

Which produces more CO2, volcanic or human activity?

Carbon dioxide is released when magma rises from the depths of the Earth on its way to the surface. Our studies here at Kilauea show that the eruption discharges between 8,000 and 30,000 metric tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere each day. Actively erupting volcanoes release much more CO2 than sleeping ones do.

Gas studies at volcanoes worldwide have helped volcanologists tally up a global volcanic CO2 budget in the same way that nations around the globe have cooperated to determine how much CO2 is released by human activity through the burning of fossil fuels. Our studies show that globally, volcanoes on land and under the sea release a total of about 200 million tonnes of CO2 annually.

This seems like a huge amount of CO2, but a visit to the U.S. Department of Energy's Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) website (Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)) helps anyone armed with a handheld calculator and a high school chemistry text put the volcanic CO2 tally into perspective. Because while 200 million tonnes of CO2 is large, the global fossil fuel CO2 emissions for 2003 tipped the scales at 26.8 billion tonnes. Thus, not only does volcanic CO2 not dwarf that of human activity, it actually comprises less than 1 percent of that value.

And CO2 still does not drive climate on planet Earth

 

[Old Rocks]

And what do those geologist state concerning global warming?

http://sciencepolicy.agu.org/files/2013/07/AGU-Climate-Change-Position-Statement_August-2013.pdf

Human activities are changing Earth’s climate. At the global level, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other heat‐trapping greenhouse gases have increased sharply since the Industrial Revolution. Fossil fuel burning dominates this increase. Human‐caused increases in greenhouse gases are responsible for most of the observed global average surface warming of roughly 0.8°C (1.5°F) over the past 140 years. Because natural processes cannot quickly remove some of these gases (notably carbon dioxide) from the atmosphere, our past, present, and future emissions will influence the climate
system for millennia.

Extensive, independent observations confirm the reality of global warming. These observations show large‐scale increases in air and sea temperatures, sea level, and atmospheric water vapor; they document decreases in the extent of mountain glaciers, snow cover, permafrost, and Arctic sea ice.
These changes are broadly consistent with longunderstood physics and predictions of how the climate system is expected to respond to human‐caused increases in greenhouse gases. The changes are inconsistent with explanations of climate change that rely on known natural influences.

Climate models predict that global temperatures will continue to rise, with the amount of warming primarily determined by the level of emissions. Higher emissions of greenhouse gases will lead to larger warming, and greater risks to society and ecosystems. Some additional warming is unavoidable due to past emissions.

 

[Old Rocks]

Position Statement
Decades of scientific research have shown that climate can change from both natural and anthropogenic causes. The Geological Society of America (GSA) concurs with assessments by the National Academies of Science (2005), the National Research Council (2011), and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) that global climate has warmed and that human activities (mainly greenhouse-gas emissions) account for most of the warming since the middle 1900s. If current trends continue, the projected increase in global temperature by the end of the twenty-first century will result in significant impacts on humans and other species. Addressing the challenges posed by climate change will require a combination of adaptation to the changes that are likely to occur and global reductions of CO2 emissions from anthropogenic sources.

The Geological Society of America - Position Statement on Climate Change

Purpose
This position statement (1) summarizes the strengthened basis for the conclusion that humans are a major factor responsible for recent global warming; (2) describes the significant effects on humans and ecosystems as greenhouse-gas concentrations and global climate reach projected levels; and (3) provides information for policy decisions guiding mitigation and adaptation strategies designed to address the future impacts of anthropogenic warming.