Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/19/2010 1:29:37 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Iceland's Eyjafjoell volcano is emitting between 150,000 and 300,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per day, a figure placing it in the same emissions league as a small-to-medium European economy, experts said on Monday.
Assuming the composition of gas to be the same as in an earlier eruption on an adjacent volcano, "the CO2 flux of Eyjafjoell would be 150,000 tonnes per day," Colin Macpherson, an Earth scientist at Britain's University of Durham, said in an email.
Patrick Allard of the Paris Institute for Global Physics (IPGP) gave what he described as a "top-range" estimate of 300,000 tonnes per day.
Both insisted that these were only approximate estimates.
Extrapolated over a year, the emissions would place the volcano 47th to 75th in the world table of emitters on a country-by-country basis, according to a database at the World Resources Institute (WRI), which tracks environment and sustainable development.
A 47th ranking would place it above Austria, Belarus, Portugal, Ireland, Finland, Bulgaria, Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland, according to this list, which relates to 2005.
Experts stressed that the volcano contributed just a tiny amount -- less than a third of one percentage point -- of global emissions of greenhouse gases.
Total emissions by six heat-trapping gases in 2005 were more than 36 thousand million tonnes (36 gigatonnes) as measured in CO2, according to the WRI index.
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H/T to the Drudge Report.
What does this translate into in terms of Ford F150s?
Lets send Algore to cap it.
Roughly 4 150s.
I would guess , you would need at least a couple of million of them.
My carbon footprint is bigger than your carbon footprint.
You’ll have to think in terms of a diesel engine (or at least the older ones). The soot emitted (cooling effect) overwhelms any warming effects the CO2 may have.
The amount of gases, if they were related to countries, would place this one event as a higher polluter than “ would place it above Austria, Belarus, Portugal, Ireland, Finland, Bulgaria, Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland”.
Gee this is one natural event, only one. Someone should ask the “experts:” how many of these events happens everyday in this world. There are many, many volcanos around and many can not even be seen as they are under the oceans. They all spew.
And this is just volcano. I wonder if the other natural events like say, emission of CO2 by breathing by all animals in the world were added up, how much that would make it?
The world is also full of oil and gas being generated beneath the earth, much of which escape into the atmosphere or oceans that are natural as well.
If one adds it all up, I wonder just how much is made by nature instead of “man-made”? The enviro-freaks would like us to believe that close to 100% of all pollutants come from man, but do they?
I like volcanos. Like this last cold winter, they help dispel the myth concocted of man-made gloabl warming.
“Extrapolated over a year”?
How does that compute?
Lesson for enviro-idiots who think they can control Nature.
Aw hell, this is going to totally mess up Crap and Tax.
OH, NOES!!
So global warming ain't happening for the foreseeable future.
Too bad. So sad.
The equivalent of 874,136,968,457,434 farts per day
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I don’t see GOD paying the carbon tax on this one. /s
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