[Will88]

“He linked increases in atmospheric methane and carbon dioxide in the ice cores to a time about 5,000 years ago when humans commenced large-scale rice farming in Asia and extensive deforestation of European forests.”

Models, smodels. They’ll tell you anything you want to hear as long a you plug in the right assumptions. But I’ve heard it said often that one large volcanic eruption can put more CO2 into the air, and other matter than years of man’s activities. And, what did these folks assume about the sun, and changes in sun activity and sunspot activity?

[ProudFossil]

I have asked several libs if CO2 is so bad, why do we spend millions of dollars every year pumping it out of the ground? Why not just trap it from the power plants, etc? No answers. Dimwits.

[muawiyah]

Usually volcanoes don't produce all that much CO2. Some produce quite a bit; most don't have a source of carbon to tap.

Depends on the volcano, not the force of the blast.