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The amount of greenhouse gases released by one volcano eruption...
by 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 agoY'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 agoDo 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."