How about this, then?
Posted on 03/22/2006 5:14:34 AM PST by Born Conservative
How about this, then?
How European of you to say so...
Your "colder than normal sometimes and warmer than normal sometimes" also applies to the history of earth. Being that Planet Earth is hundreds of millions of years old, the age we live in is a mere blip on the timeline. If earth were to "warm" over the next 1000 years, that is still a small chunk of time in relation to total age of earth, and can very well be a normal variation. Global warming, as propogandized by the media, is a myth. I'm all for conservation, but saying that man is causing the destruction of earth is very presumptuous. Volcanoes cause much more air pollution than man burning gas and oil....
Especially the further away humans are away from the equator.
Global warming however is better than global cooling, otherwize everyone will have to crowd towards the equator, and try live off decreased airable land.
Global warming on the otherhand, may make places near the equator more desert like, but more airable land would be available in more northern regions, along with mild winters.
I hate to tell you, you're completely wrong. Volcanoes are not a signficant source of CO2.
I can explain to you, if you are willing to listen, why the increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration is due primarily to human causation. But before explaining, you could read these:
How much of the recent CO2 increase is due to human activities?
How do we know that recent CO2 increases are due to human activities?
Which IPCC AR are you quoting from? (Or I should say, which IPCC AR is well-known climate skeptic Fred Singer quoting from?)
Thats it. 268 ft. huh? recalculate null and void! LoL
Use 60 years instead of 50
OK, Thanks!
268ft/50years=536ft/century
5280ft/mile
3km=1.9mi=9900ft=18.5centuries=18,500years.
Still surprisingly quick.
Done.
Nope.
"On July 15, 1992, fifty years to the day later, 74-year-old Brad McManus stood on the ice cap surrounded by the recovered pieces of his late friend Harry Smith's P-38"
Weather.
Use 60 years instead of 50
Nope.
"On July 15, 1992, fifty years to the day later, 74-year-old Brad McManus stood on the ice cap surrounded by the recovered pieces of his late friend Harry Smith's P-38"
All the paragraphs in the first link say humans do more but then the chart clearly indicates volcanoes do more.
And the second and third links are pure bunk. They state things as unquestioned that are indeed questioned. Does human activity add CO2 emmissions? Sure. Has human activity lessened CO2 absorption? Sure. Do they add up to enough to account for all of the change in CO2 saturation? We don't know, there are way too many variables involved in the CO2 cycle of the planet that we really know nothing about to be able to say anything definitively. We really can't even say for sure how CO2 interacts with the climate over prolonged periods of time. That's the problem with the entire debate, neither side really knows enough to say anything for sure, the planetary weather cycle is vast and complex, we aren't even really sure what the hell is going on much less why.
If I had a dollar for every time I've posted this link...
That's only 1000 years. There's a weather cycle on this planet that lasts anywhere from 105,000 to 200,000 years. 1000 years worth of data from one section of that cycle is statistically insignificant.
I know,LoL!
3km = 9842 ft.
268ft per 50yrs= 536ft per century.
9842/536= 18.36 centuries or 1836 years.
1836 years ago romans were growing grapes in Icland.
Ah! Then it all fits!!!
The chart isn't about CO2 or SO2. It's about volatile acids. According to the article, on average, human emissions of CO2 are about 150 times volcanic emissions. Volcanoes emit about 25% of human emissions of SO2.
You said that Kilauea volcano was a major source of CO2 to the atmosphere. It's not.
As for the other links, they explain why increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations are primarily caused by human activities. Definitive science data makes this a certainty. That's all that I wanted you to realize. As for the rest of your convictions about the uncertainty in the scientific understanding of the issue, the only thing that might change your convictions is enhanced knowledge of the issue.
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