You seem to be very religious — the Global Warming/Greenatarians.

Merry Mercury Rising!

“rice paddies and livestock flatulence being the major sources of methane”

There is a great pie chart there.

Great stuff Jim. Amazing. Nature produces 30 times more CO2 than man.

There is an important difference between the CO2 produced by nature and that emitted by human activities. While nature produces about 30 times more CO2 than human activity, the carbon emitted by nature is part of a finely balanced cycle.

that is far to close to understand, you made a big mistake!
why can´t one see those effects in all co2 measurements, that has been taken for the last 100 years. If it´s that great, than it must has an effect in the atmosphere, but it didn´t has an impact as you can see from the constant up and down you can measure even at your home from winterseason to summerseason:), look at all measures scientists have conduct throughout the last decades, there´s as well no connection in the measures that are taken form the antarctica, where measurements can reveal the co2 situation for the last 1000000 years!, the same timeslope we are on earth!!, within it never went upon the level we have reached now!, at the same time all outbreaks of volcanoes went slightly down, of course there have ever been such outbreaks!, but never there has been plenty of us!

think about a second thing, who has the lobby, interested in the spreading of what is the content in the volcano article. most likely it´s not the lobby of all independent scientists, you know who it might be of!!!!!

No one, you or Al, can be credible while repeating false information.

Look at this obit…
R.I.P. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. 1917-2007.

New Deal historian and intellectual-in-residence at Camelot, Schlesinger stands not only a preeminent American scholar but as a lion of liberalism. Although the work of Alan Brinkley is more nuanced and less hagiographic, Schlesinger’s extensive writings on the Roosevelt administrations remain (with the work of Ellis Hawley and William Leuchtenberg) a foundation for New Deal historiography. To this day, along with his colleague and compadre John Kenneth Galbraith, Schlesinger is a passionate and articulate voice for Kennedyism and the Great Society agenda.

Dr. Steven Hayward’s new documentary is out and the screenings are posted at PacificResearch.org.

This will shock you as to how much Al Gore lied in his Oscar-winning PowerPoint.

One more point, volcanos are spewing CO2, carbon monixide, supher and heavy ash 15,000 feet into the upper atmosphere, where plants can’t absorb any of it.

An interesting sidebar: ironically, although massive eruptions like Pinatubo add small amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere, their effect on plant respiration causes an increased uptake of CO2 by the biosphere — so massive eruptions tend to decrease the total atmospheric CO2 concentration. See Krakauer and Randerson 2003, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, vol. 17, pg. 1118, and Robock 2003, Volcanism and the Earth’s Atmosphere, Geophysical Monograph 139, American Geophysical Union, doi:10.1029/139GM01.

Scientists have calculated that volcanoes emit between about 130-230 million tonnes (145-255 million tons) of CO2 into the atmosphere every year (Gerlach, 1999, 1992). This estimate includes both subaerial and submarine volcanoes, about in equal amounts. Emissions of CO2 by human activities, including fossil fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring, amount to about 22 billion tonnes per year (24 billion tons) [ ( Marland, et al., 1998) - The reference gives the amount of released carbon (C), rather than CO2.]. Human activities release more than 150 times the amount of CO2 emitted by volcanoes–the equivalent of nearly 17,000 additional volcanoes like Kilauea (Kilauea emits about 13.2 million tonnes/year)!

Nice to see you out and about again.

As to CO2 data, I would appreciate a link to a reliable source.

the Grit

I posted the truth, that the CO2 emissions from the U.S. alone, in one year, are 140 times greater than those from the Mt. Pinatubo explosion. Mike pointed you to a graph of CO2 concentration for the last several thousand years, which shows no visible spike at the time of Mt. Pinatubo, but does show the steady increase from human emissions.

And how do you respond? You flame Al Gore, and ask us to explain the Great Lakes.

Your “stats” are just plain wrong. Either admit your mistake and apologize for your sloppy research, or accept the fact that every reader will know you’re not the least bit interested in truth.

Fermi–I’ve visited and toured the famed Fermi Lab in Illinois serveral times. I suggest you buy The Skeptical Enivronmentalist by Bjoyrn Lomborg. Like Don Imus, your high priest of the new Green/Socialist polito-relgion, Al Gore has gone to far. His PowerPoint is full of lies, yet you don’t mention any of that, you are trying to argue with my stats point by point. Have you explained the Great Lakes yet?
—Mick

Volcanoes put out 1,000 times more CO2 than all of the autos in the world. In deed, Mount Pinatubo pumped out more CO2 in its 1991 erruption than all of the man-made emmissions since the beginning of time

The U.S. Geological survey estimates that the CO2 emissions from the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo as 42 Mt (million tons). The total CO2 from all volcanic activity worldwide is about 130 Mt per year. Emissions from human activity from the U.S. alone are about 6 Gt (billion tons). Do the math.