No olfraud it is not a strawman and you know it. The claim made ad-nauseum is that man is blanketing the world with CO2. We put more CO2 into the atmosphere than all the volcanos on the world combined (interesting how they know that considering over 80% of all volcano's are underwater but hey we'll give them their little point) my point is if CO2 is so damned bad why is the effect even arguable?
There should not be a worldwide effort underway to "adjust" the historical temperature records to make the past cooler so the narrative today holds up. And yet, that is the exact fraud that is occuring now. It is well reported in the sceptic media and NIWA has been publicly humiliated in New Zealand for getting blatantly caught doing it.
And yet, a simple little volcano with a minor erruption has unequivocal impact. Measurable by any individual with a good thermometer. And more to the point the effects are measurable worldwide.
A volcano in other words is a test of the overall theory of AGW. And it exposes the fault in the theory very well.
As far as the claim effecting the climate for the next millenium, that is not borne out by the great little study you posted a few months back (why don't you post that one again so we can read it again) which showed quite simply that there is no coupling between CO2 and temperature. Remember the little observation they made where the CO2 level stayed constant at a high level for why it was 1000 years I believe and the temperature rose and fell three times during that elevated CO2 time.
Sounds pretty convincing to me.
I think that the USGS is a bit more to be trusted than a faux geologist.
Hmmm...... How about this video
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Volcanic Gases and Climate Change Overview
Volcanic versus anthropogenic CO2 emissions
Do the Earth’s volcanoes emit more CO2 than human activities? Research findings indicate that the answer to this frequently asked question is a clear and unequivocal, “No.” 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).
The half dozen or so published estimates of the global CO2 emission rate for all degassing subaerial and submarine volcanoes lie in a range from 132 million (minimum) to 378 million (maximum) metric tons per year (Gerlach, 1991; Varekamp et al., 1992; Allard, 1992; Sano and Williams, 1996; Marty and Tolstikhin, 1998; Kerrick, 2001). If estimate medians and author-preferred estimates of these studies are used to lessen the influence of outlier estimates, the range is restricted to about 150-270 million metric tons of CO2 per year. The current anthropogenic CO2 emission rate of some 36,300-million metric tons of CO2 per year is about 100 to 300 times larger than these estimated ranges for global volcanic CO2 emissions.
In recent times, about 50-60 volcanoes are normally active on the EarthÂ’s subaerial terrain. One of these is Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii, which has an annual baseline CO2 output of about 3.1 million metric tons per year [Gerlach et al., 2002]. It would take a huge addition of volcanoes to the subaerial landscape—the equivalent of an extra 11,700 Kīlauea volcanoes—to scale up the global volcanic CO2 emission rate to the anthropogenic CO2 emission rate. Similarly, scaling up the volcanic rate to the current anthropogenic rate by adding more submarine volcanoes would require the addition of over 100 mid-oceanic ridge systems to the sea floor.
Global volcanic CO2 emission estimates are uncertain, but there is little doubt that the anthropogenic CO2 emission rate is more than a hundred times greater than the global volcanic CO2 emission rate.