[RightWhale]

There's that Benjamin Franklin again, the 5th most important scientist in all history.

If Earth sprung a leak

The only flood basalt in recorded history spilled 12 cubic kilometers of lava across Iceland in 1783, releasing enough gas to cause Benjamin Franklin to write about a wierd, dense "dry fog" in Europe that contained no water. The gases, containing fluoride from the eruption, settled on the pastures in Iceland, poisoning the critical sheep herds and causing starvation that killed 20 percent of the population.

[Sundog]

This Link shows 1,300 tons of CO2 per day is being emitted into the atmosphere by the renewed volcanic activity near Mammoth Mountain. There are large areas of dead pine trees where the ground has very high levels of CO2 and it is also killing the burrowing rodents.

I wonder if this will blow in the next 50 years.

Cheers.