have u seen a report that a volcano has done more damaged in recent eruption than what we have done in 20 year

Question

I saw a program on TV that a volcano has done more damaged to the enviroment than what we have done in the past 20 years and now I cannot even find it any where. Did someone take it off the air?

Answer 1

I've never seen the show myself, but I can tell you right now it's absolutely, one hundred percent not true. As a long-term average, volcanism produces about 5X10^11 kg of CO2 per year; that production, along with oceanic and terrestrial biomass cycling maintained a carbon dioxide reservoir in the atmosphere of about 2.2X10^15 kg. Current fossil fuel and land use practices now introduce about a (net) 17.6X10^12 kg of CO2 into the atmosphere and has resulted in a progressively increasing atmospheric reservoir of 2.69X10^15 kg of CO2. Hence, volcanism produces about 3% of the total CO2 with the other 97% coming from man-made sources.
For more detail, see Morse and Mackenzie, 1990, Geochemistry of Sedimentary Carbonates.

Answer 2

Well all your answers missed the real answer. That is that CO2 is not a pollutant . A few million years ago Mother nature introduced plants. Plants take in CO2 and give off oxygen . The calculating what u think is there is dumb go measure it . It is below 1/2 of 1% of our atmosphere . Because the plants have done a great job.

Answer 3

Don't expect to get any answer to good questions. I asked some questions about methane, hoping to get an objective answer. I think what some of these nut jobs want to hear is what fits their political agenda. If you said am radio used by right wing talk stations is starting to affect the ozone layer, then there would be a grant somewhere to some college to prove it. Who wants drastically changed weather extremes. The answer is no one, but if it is nature doing it, we can't stop it.

Answer 4

no i did not see it, isnt it great we have now got something else to blame for what we have done