Quote Originally Posted by DeusExMachina View Post
Got a source for that?

Do volcanos cut down the forests that process CO2, too?

watched a show on discovery or history that said the trees in the very north and very south part of the hemisphere put out more oxygen than all humans could use, so I guess that is a good thing with all the deforestation going on.


http://www.factcheck.org/2010/06/eruption-corruption/

factcheck says volcanoes on average don't do as much as humans do.

''150,000 to 300,000 tons of CO2 per day at the height of the Eyjafjallajokull eruption''

"But the European Union’s air travel, which was shut down for days during the eruption, accounts for 3 percent of the EU’s total CO2 emissions, which according to the European Environment Agency was about 4,089 billion tons in 2008"

info from USGS:
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hazards/gas/index.php
"Volcanoes release more than 130 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere every year."

the biggest threat from volcanoes is the massive amount of gasses that come out in large quantities. their relative percentages compared to the air we breathe, even in downtown smog filled cities can be pretty harmful.


Over the last 100 years a lot of really good progress has been made as far as emissions go from airplanes and cars and boats and powerplants etc etc.
but the number of the vehicles and planes and plants in use has also gone up.

unfortunately, that is the way it is. people can bitch and moan and complain all they want. I fly jets, I drive my big 4x4's and ride my 4 wheelers and do what I want to do. I pay for it. I use the technology that is available. until the costs come down and the availability of new technology comes about, ain't shit gonna change.