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I was looking for evidence of anthropogenic climate change in this article but didn’t find any

aww_dang 5y ago
Are there any possible observations which would disprove the anthropocentric climate change theory? If not, is the theory unfalsifiable?
- Cyder 5y ago
  The amount of greenhouse gases released by one volcano eruption...
  - rrss 5y ago
    > Global estimates of the annual present-day CO2 output of the Earth’s degassing subaerial and submarine volcanoes range from 0.13 to 0.44 billion metric tons (gigatons) per year > Anthropogenic CO2 emissions—responsible for a projected 35 gigatons of CO2 in 2010 [Friedlingstein et al., 2010] — clearly dwarf all estimates of the annual present-day global volcanic CO2 emission rate. Gerlach, T., (2011), Volcanic versus anthropogenic carbon dioxide, Eos Trans. AGU, 92( 24), 201. https://earthscience.rice.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Gerlach2011_EOS.pdf https://earthscience.rice.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Ger...
  - kaybe 5y ago
    Y'know, search engines to help with that question. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/which-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-volcanoes-or-human-activities https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/which-emits...
  - myko 5y ago
    Do you actually believe this or are you being sarcastic? To be clear, volcanoes do not contribute more CO2 annually than humans do. https://skepticalscience.com/volcanoes-and-global-warming-intermediate.htm https://skepticalscience.com/volcanoes-and-global-warming-in... "Volcanoes emit around 0.3 billion tonnes of CO2 per year. This is about 1% of human CO2 emissions which is around 29 billion tonnes per year."
- vegetablepotpie 5y ago
  You can look at some aspects of the theory for anthropocentric climate change for falsifiable statements. The explanation for the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is that humans burn fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas. All of which contain no carbon-13 isotopes because of their isolation underground, whereas the carbon released from living things does contain carbon-13, which is formed from the presence on cosmic rays. If nature, and not humans, are the source of carbon emissions, we would expect to see no decrease, with respect to time, in the proportion of carbon dioxide molecules containing carbon-13 atoms in earths atmosphere.

Are there any possible observations which would disprove the anthropocentric climate change theory? If not, is the theory unfalsifiable?

Cyder 5y ago
The amount of greenhouse gases released by one volcano eruption...
- rrss 5y ago
  > Global estimates of the annual present-day CO2 output of the Earth’s degassing subaerial and submarine volcanoes range from 0.13 to 0.44 billion metric tons (gigatons) per year > Anthropogenic CO2 emissions—responsible for a projected 35 gigatons of CO2 in 2010 [Friedlingstein et al., 2010] — clearly dwarf all estimates of the annual present-day global volcanic CO2 emission rate. Gerlach, T., (2011), Volcanic versus anthropogenic carbon dioxide, Eos Trans. AGU, 92( 24), 201. https://earthscience.rice.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Gerlach2011_EOS.pdf https://earthscience.rice.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Ger...
- kaybe 5y ago
  Y'know, search engines to help with that question. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/which-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-volcanoes-or-human-activities https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/which-emits...
- myko 5y ago
  Do you actually believe this or are you being sarcastic? To be clear, volcanoes do not contribute more CO2 annually than humans do. https://skepticalscience.com/volcanoes-and-global-warming-intermediate.htm https://skepticalscience.com/volcanoes-and-global-warming-in... "Volcanoes emit around 0.3 billion tonnes of CO2 per year. This is about 1% of human CO2 emissions which is around 29 billion tonnes per year."
vegetablepotpie 5y ago
You can look at some aspects of the theory for anthropocentric climate change for falsifiable statements. The explanation for the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is that humans burn fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas. All of which contain no carbon-13 isotopes because of their isolation underground, whereas the carbon released from living things does contain carbon-13, which is formed from the presence on cosmic rays. If nature, and not humans, are the source of carbon emissions, we would expect to see no decrease, with respect to time, in the proportion of carbon dioxide molecules containing carbon-13 atoms in earths atmosphere.