Volcanic Ash is now heat seeking

[CelticRambler]

Originally Posted by moreflaps

This would be equivalent to ~4700 L of diesel... Damn, all those underdeveloped countries must be driving miles...

Sounds about right, but it's not all in diesel and it's not the underdeveloped countries. You're forgetting to include all of the fuel needed to generate electricity for Modern Man's traffic lights and road signage, streetlighting, runway lighting, running fridges, freezers, cookers, hot water immersion heaters, etc, floodlighting historic monuments, bedazzling shoppers, gaudy illuminated Christmas decorations ...... You don't get quite so much of that in peri-saharan Africa or rainforested Asia.

[le Pingouin]

moreflaps, RATpin where do you think all the electricity you're happily consuming at your computer comes from? What's the 250 million tonnes of black stuff we export every year?

[Compylot]

Carbon Tax equals a hit to the wallet, that is all

Thats fine "old fella", guess it won't be so much of a problem for ya soon eh?

Just leave it for your kids and their grandchildren to sort out

[RATpin]

Mods,probably time to shut the thread IMHO,it's seems to now be turning into a believers vs non-believers thread.Apologies for my part in this.

[teresa green]

Comply, I notice you are only twenty. lesson nbr 1 , don't believe everything they tell you.

[stewser89]

I have done a bit of quick goggling and would treat anything that Ian Plimer says about climate change.
From the Guardian website he states

On page 413 of the book he repeats the old canard that "Volcanoes produce more CO2 than the world's cars and industries combined

Therefore it is about CO2 and not greenhouse gases. When questioned about the discrepancy.

Plimer's response was that the USGS is only talking about terrestrial volcanoes and has not incorporated CO2 produced by undersea eruptions at mid-ocean ridges. "85% of the world's volcanoes we neither see nor measure," he said. "They leak out huge amounts of carbon dioxide... That does not come into the USGS figures nor does it come into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's figures.

Err yes it does
Let me bring but up the quote from the other page

Do the Earth’s volcanoes emit more CO2 than human activities? Research findings indicate that the answer to this frequently asked question is a clear and unequivocal, “No.” Human activities, responsible for a projected 35 billion metric tons (gigatons) of CO2 emissions in 2010 (Friedlingstein et al., 2010), release an amount of CO2 that dwarfs the annual CO2 emissions of all the world’s degassing sub-aerial and submarine volcanoes (

From the USGS the bolding is mine

Im outta here