Quote from: Shantel on February 13, 2013, 08:19:34 AM
The degrees of magnetic declination from true north have changed dramatically over the last decade. In layman's terms it means the earth has tilted on it's axis more than it was ten years ago which would easily account for climactic changes. Archaeologists studying fossil remains found that stone age aborigines in what is now northeastern US had left at the onset of the last ice age and moved toward what is now the desert southwest as a matter of survival. There is every indication that climate change is a cyclical event that reoccurs over eons. Humankind hasn't been here long enough to record even a partial cycle. What changes have taken place so far has given rise to a whole plethora of human reactions ranging from "Henny Penny the Sky is Falling Down" to let's use this as an opportunity to place blame and plunder the fortunes of the world's manufacturing moguls. On August 27, 1883. the most violent volcanic eruption in recorded history took place on the island of Krakatoa. Four cubic miles of rock and carboniferous materials were pulverized to dust and thrown 17 miles into the atmosphere. Since that time there have been innumerable volcanic events which all told have exceeded all of the pollution that mankind has ever generated since the dawn of time, and yet the earth has survived rather well without human assistance. In light of that we can conclude that the idea that human beings can in any way affect the ongoing survival of planet earth is ludicrously arrogant!
http://news.discovery.com/earth/weather-extreme-events/volcanoes-co2-people-emissions-climate-110627.htmhttp://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/archive/2007/07_02_15.html"This seems like a huge amount of CO2, but a visit to the U.S. Department of Energy's Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) website (
http://cdiac.ornl.gov/) helps anyone armed with a handheld calculator and a high school chemistry text put the volcanic CO2 tally into perspective. Because while 200 million tonnes of CO2 is large, the global fossil fuel CO2 emissions for 2003 tipped the scales at 26.8 billion tonnes. Thus, not only does volcanic CO2 not dwarf that of human activity, it actually comprises less than 1 percent of that value. "
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11638-climate-myths-human-co2-emissions-are-too-tiny-to-matter.html"Finally, claims that volcanoes emit more CO2 than human activities are simply not true. In the very distant past, there have been volcanic eruptions so massive that they covered vast areas in lava more than a kilometre thick and appear to have released enough CO2 to warm the planet after the initial cooling caused by the dust (see Wipeout). But even with such gigantic eruptions, most of subsequent warming may have been due to methane released when lava heated coal deposits, rather than from CO2 from the volcanoes (see also Did the North Atlantic's 'birth' warm the world?).
Measurements of CO2 levels over the past 50 years do not show any significant rises after eruptions. Total emissions from volcanoes on land are estimated to average just 0.3 Gt of CO2 each year - about a hundredth of human emissions (pdf document)."
Plus, if humans, in their 100,000+ years, haven't seen even a glimpse of the climate change cycle, then why have global temperatures risen significantly over the time since the industrial revolution, a mere glimmer of the human existence, which you say is a mere glimmer of the climate change cycle? Even if human activity doesn't lead to climate change, you can be sure as heck that it's responsible for accelerating it.
I'm sorry. I know I said I would stay out, but your arguments are the same ones I've heard many times. There are a lot of people out there who claim that volcanoes dwarf human CO2 emissions, yet they never have a volcanologist to back them up. If you were told that volcanoes exceed human CO2 emissions from breathing, then you may have a point. However, total human CO2 emissions, natural and the result of combustion, make volcanoes look like ants.
