A few years ago (second year in college) my “Volcanoes” professor (the class was literally all about volcanoes) gave probably the most pragmatic and intelligent response to a question about man made global warming that came up in class. I don’t remember it verbatim, but basically…
People have only been producing significant amounts of “greenhouse gases” for the last 150 years, and only in the last 50-60 years has it been on a worldwide scale. Volcanic activity, a single eruption, not even a major event, can pump out more toxic gases than 20 years worth of human industry. A major event can end our world as we know it in months. People like to think we have a major influence on our world, but it’s almost all superficial, and if we were to disappear tomorrow, the world would be wild again in just a few years. We should be worrying about the quality of life on this planet before we start panicking about a slight climate change over hundreds of years that we can’t prove is actually happening, or what is truly causing it.
[quote]Jeffe wrote:
A few years ago (second year in college) my “Volcanoes” professor (the class was literally all about volcanoes) gave probably the most pragmatic and intelligent response to a question about man made global warming that came up in class. I don’t remember it verbatim, but basically…
People have only been producing significant amounts of “greenhouse gases” for the last 150 years, and only in the last 50-60 years has it been on a worldwide scale. Volcanic activity, a single eruption, not even a major event, can pump out more toxic gases than 20 years worth of human industry. A major event can end our world as we know it in months. People like to think we have a major influence on our world, but it’s almost all superficial, and if we were to disappear tomorrow, the world would be wild again in just a few years. We should be worrying about the quality of life on this planet before we start panicking about a slight climate change over hundreds of years that we can’t prove is actually happening, or what is truly causing it.[/quote]
There was a show on tv last night called “Megavolcanoes” and it pretty much said the same thing.Scary shit indeed.