Real “Climate Change” inaction

North-westerly winds pushed the giant column of ash from the Chilean volcano, located 870 kilometres south of the capital Santiago near the border with Argentina, into Chile's Lago Ranco area.

Bariloche, located about 100 kilometers east of the volcano, had covered in a sooty blanket of several centimetres thick and remained under a state of emergency.

The picturesque town, as well as others in the vicinity affected by the ash, welcomes thousands of foreign tourists each year to its lakes and mountain scenery, as well as ski slopes in the winter months.

Chile has some 3,000 volcanoes, of which some 500 are geologically active and 60 have erupted in the past half century.

FACT:

Man-made Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere is 3%.

Australia contributes 1.5% of the 3% or a measly 0.045%

Volcanoes emit a variety of gases including H2O, Carbon Dioxide, SO2, HCl, NH3, H2S, HF. These gases interact rapidly with the ash particles of a volcanic plume and especially atmospheric water to form acidic aerosols.

Will Julia Gillard’s Carbon Dioxide Tax will help reduce volcanic eruptions too?

She and GetUp! both think it would cool the planet afterall.

Andy Semple

Comments

[cameron]

1.

"According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the world’s volcanoes, both on land and undersea, generate about 200 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually, while our automotive and industrial activities cause some 24 billion tons of CO2 emissions every year worldwide. Despite the arguments to the contrary, the facts speak for themselves: Greenhouse gas emissions from volcanoes comprise less than one percent of those generated by today’s human endeavors."

oh okay

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=earthtalks-volcanoes-or-humans

[Anton]

2.

It is good practice to perform an "order of magnitude" calculation on any scientific claim.

Does 24 billion t(CO2) make sense? Do a mass balance.

Does the 200 million t(CO2) make sense? How large is a single volcanic plume?

Too much effort?

Never mind, CO2 is insignificant in terms of climate and weather. The sun provides the energy and water vapour directs it. All other factors are just insects on the windscreen.

[Georgina]

3.

That's funny, Cameron. When there were horse drawn carriages, no cars, no coal mines, no aeroplanes - the pre-industrial age - the climate changed just as it does today. There was the ice age (how did that happen?), then a warming age.

The sun is going quiet at the moment (NASA) which indicates a "maunder" effect on its way (cooling). The Sun controls climate and Anton is right "CO2 is insignificant in terms of climate and weather."

If one reads history one will find that ancient civilisations experienced global cooling and global warming. (The Peruvians in 600AD witnessed 30 years of cooling and 30 years of warming) - and they did not have cars, industry or the like.

Volcanoes do emit gas and ash, and humans emit carbon monoxide, cows emit methane, and that cannot be altered and has not altered throughout history, so where does that fit in with the sudden emergence of climate change?

[Georgina]

4.

Andy is right with his figures. "Man made carbon dioxine in the atmosphere is 3% and Australia contributes 1.5% of the 3% which is a measly amount of 0.045%. These figures have not been denied by those seeking to burden Australians with another tax.

Other major countries are not going down the path that the Australian government is going, taxing their citizens to achieve NOTHING - China, India, Japan, Canada. The only ones benefitting from this tax will be banks, investment companies and the like. The average Australian will be hit hard. It is about time that Australians woke up to the scam that Australia is a great pollutant.

[Mat]

5.

Hi Andy,

Sorry to nitpick, but the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere is actually 0.0385%. There is a single molecule of CO2 in roughly every 2600 molecules of the various gases that make up the air that we breathe. Of that, only 3% is attributed to anthropogenic sources, and of that 3%, Oz is responsible for about 1.5%. I'm waiting for one of the left wing warmists to explain how reducing 1.5% of 3% of 0.0385% is going to make any difference, even if you believe the 'science' that they assure us is settled. What a joke.

[Anton]

6.

even if you believe the 'science' that they assure us is settled

Actually the science (AGW theory) is settled.

The hypothesis has been falsified and is therefore void. No amount of consensus or celebrity endorsement can change that.

Tony Abbott had it right the first time - Climate change is crap.

[David Bradford]

7.

Its time that the media stopped using so much electricity to keep broadcasting their radio and television program from terrestrial sites the average city TV station uses up to 100kw hours per hour 24 hours a day so with 5 networks in Australia radiating in every Capital and Regional city plus the power consumption of radio broadcasters the figures speak for themselves, every time a global warming enthusiast or Earth Day enthusiast gabbles on about their wonderful ideas they are contributing to much gas!

Dave the doubter