[upchuck]

The "greenies" must be horrified. Strange that they apparently haven't expressed their horror. Maybe they're busy trying to cap the volcano to shut off the bad, bad CO2 that makes green things grow.

[capt. norm]

This was authored by Dick Little...who probably still suffers from being kidded about his name in school and therefore became a liberal.

[ryan71]

“Never let a crisis go to waste”.

This only means they need to control man-made emissions more than originally planned.

[j_hig]

I would tend to assume the author is right, but he has absolutely no data to say an estimated X amount of greenhouse gas was released. I think he may be making this up. In the first few days I read a lot of environmentalists saying the flights being grounded nearly make up for the volcano’s pollution and such and also believe I saw some data they tried to use to indicate that the volcano isn’t really as bad as we’d assume. As much as we’d probably like to laugh at the environmental wacko’s futile attempts, we also need to get our facts straight.
http://environment.about.com/od/greenhouseeffect/a/volcano-gas.htm

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Didn’t Pres. Reagan say something about “one little volcano” producing more toxic gases, etc. ... than all of our factories, industries, ...

But Reagan was a stupid, knuckle-dragging conservative, wasn’t he?

[Errant]

Strange that they apparently haven't expressed their horror.

They be crafting legislation requiring America to purchase offsetting carbon credits

[usmcobra]

I think Iceland should buy the trillions of dollars in carbon credits required to set the world back on the right path to eco-happiness.

[libertarian27]

One volcano can ruin your whole decade - and portfolio ;)

[Moltke]

The government has told Detroit as well as Japanese and European automakers to produce smaller, less polluting automobiles. It has required automobile companies to add "catalytic converters" to their cars that rob our vehicles of horse power.

Uh, cats have been around for over 30 years, they don't rob any significant amount of power anymore (engines are designed with cats in mind), and they don't have anything to do with CO2. They're a good thing, else major cities would have China-level air 'quality'.

The author comes across as a bit of a raving nutter.