To: AndyTheBear; WildcatClan; cogitator
I think that any site that lists only 33 billion tons per year of CO
2 is severely underestimating (even if it were a unit confusion between short/long/metric tonnes). A
USGS estimate is 130 million tonnes per year.
Be sure you're not confusing billion with million. Volcanic activity is in hundreds of MILLIONS of tons/year. Human output is in tens of BILLIONS of tons/year. And recall...much of humanity's contribution is not from automobiles.
In any case, the total anthropogenic CO2 output is
108 posted on
04/25/2007 2:39:32 PM PDT by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: Gondring
WEll, I’m not doing a great job typing today. That post wasn’t correct either. I meant “overestimating,” of course.
111 posted on
04/25/2007 2:41:33 PM PDT by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: Gondring; WildcatClan; cogitator
Thanks.
I think the USGS seems authoritative enough to trust on this one. It does seem the Global Warming Swindle documentary messed up with on that point. I hope they edit that part.
Side note: I'm probably going to be a way from FR at least a few days as work on stuff I actually get paid for. Its been fun poking my nose into this debate.
114 posted on
04/25/2007 3:30:23 PM PDT by
AndyTheBear
(Disastrous social experimentation is the opiate of elitist snobs.)
To: Gondring
If you look at the notation the billions refer to total carbon output.
116 posted on
04/25/2007 5:38:10 PM PDT by
steveab
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