Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Volcanos and climate change
An interesting tid-bit to throw at the climate-change doubters in your life. The volcano in iceland (okay, let me do a little cut-and-paste here -- Eyjafjallajoekull) is pumping huge amounts of CO2 into the atmoshpere, as volcanos are wont to do. However, it's actually putting out LESS CO2 than the normal European air traffic would. So with the planes grounded, there's an improvement!
(Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a lot of assumptions, and lots of the travel was diverted to ground vehicles which has it's own CO2 output, and lots of travel was simply postponed, so the impact will just come later, and so on and so forth, but the article is pretty transparent about their data. And the real point is that air traffic alone puts out more CO2 than volcanos!)
Anyone still have doubts about the potential for man-made changes in global climate?
Full article here:
