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One volcanic eruption eclipses everything we have pumped out as far as green house gases since the industrial revolution. I don't feel like searching for the evidence I have seen over and over, just doesn't matter to me enough. Even the people in most cases who used to squack about it have come out and admitted the science was skewed.



Sorry Ian, both of those points are utter BS. Here is a study from the United States Geologic Survey.

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hazards/gas/climate.php

Humans emit 35 GIGATONS annually, versus 0.44 Gigatons from all Earth outgassing, i.e. volcanoes and other sources.

So far I haven't seen one post with any evidence to the contrary, only posts stating that we can't possibly be responsible and it's all political. No, it's science. The same kind of science that allows us to put men on the moon, to make a wire that is only 4 atoms across, that allows us to build a reactor under the Swiss Alps and potentially accelerate a particle beyond light speed. Or are they all politicians too. When did we as a society decide that scientists are all idiots or corrupt, rather than respect them for the knowledge and research that they do. God help us if we'd shown the same disbelief to Albert Einstein. "Oh sure Al, of COURSE you can split atoms! (derisive laughter in the background) Of course you can't be bothered to provide evidence, because it does not exist. Even one of the top climate change skeptics found this out on a study funded by the Koch Foundation, one of the biggest funders of anti-climate change science. Of course, as soon as he ended up contradicting them, he was accused of being bought out, of being a charlatan, etc..., despite the fact that he had been one of the Koch Foundations biggest and most important spokesmen in Congressional hearings in trying to debunk man made climate change. In fact, in the several posts about this, I've yet to see ANY credible scientific data to the contrary, only postulations that it's all politics.


Second, among the scientific community, the consensus is FAR and away in support of man contributing to global warming. Show one credible study otherwise, and I'll not say another word other than to admit my mistake. Sorry, just because you or others on here say it's BS, doesn't make it so, especially if you guys won't even post anything to support the position.

Last edited by Bayern710; 01/14/2012 11:45 PM.