Originally posted by: Sid59
Global Warming is mostly due to the pollution and CFCs in the atmosphere, which can't go anywhere.
Global warming has progressively gotten worse. The Earth's population has progressivley gotten bigger.
If the tree huggers don't care for the Earth and push Grass Root Assemblies into Congress, who will?
Most people just don't care. That's the sad truth to it all.
This isn't very scientific, but I was curious and looked some stuff up quickly.
Mt. Saint Helens released 2,000,000 tons of Sulfur Dioxide:
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There are 50-60 volcanic eruptions each year:
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US annual Sulfur Dioxide production is ~11,000,000 tons:
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Ok, so
50 eruptions x 2,000,000 tons Sulfur Dioxide = 100,000,000 tons of Sulfur Dioxide/year by volcanoes. Let's be conservative, and say 75,000,000. That's still more than 6 times the amount released now by the United States.
Let's get really bold and say, for sake of argument, that we've been releasing that much since, say, 1852. That's 1,650,000,000 tons for America over the course of our Industrial Revolution.
Volcanoes have released 11,250,000,000 tons in that time. That is, however, only in 150 years. Volcanoes have been around for billions. So, let's say that volcanic activity is fairly regular. Over 1 billion years:
Sulfur Dioxide released by America: 1,650,000,000 tons
Sulfur Dioxide released by volcanoes: 11,250,000,000,000,000,000 tons
That's 1.65 billion tons vs 11.25 quintillion tons.
We all know that the Sulfur Dioxide is staying on earth, because it can't go anywhere else. So over the course of a billion years, the earth was fine. Now we release 1/6,000,000,000 th of the amount of sulfur dioxide, and all of the sudden we're killing the earth. Does that make sense?
This is a serious post, and I want to see what you have to say. I'm not trolling here.