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by batteryhorse 2872 days ago
It's true. Climate change really is modern day religion.

A volcanic eruption is more likely to cause the climate to change.

The war on climate change suggests that humans are capable of preventing a volcano from erupting.

The poles are shifting as well.

Pollution is a separate issue, of course we should keep everything clean, but when the climate stops changing, that probably means the planet is dead, like Mars (setting up a colony on Mars makes absolutely no sense either)

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the number of volcanos erupting in some interval (say 10 years) is large enough that you can roughly treat it as a constant source of CO2, but at the same time the volcano is emitting igneous rock (i.e. the magma with CO2 removed), which will reabsorb the CO2 over a very long timespan... so yes volcanos emit large amounts of CO2, and commensurate amounts of CO2 absorbing igneous rock, in geological timescales they cancel