So bang goes all the Methane and CO2 work for the last ten years.
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Not just us then, even the World is against us.
That man’s voice really grates on me.
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No, sorry, that is nonsense, we have been through this before, the gasses emitted by all the volcanoes on the planet are about 2% of the greenhouse gasses emitted. They are ridiculously small in volume on a planet wide basis.
I am going by memory but those figures are close enough.
Not nonsense Bruce, there are at least 30 active volcanoes spewing out methane at any one time. And Methane is ten times worse than CO2… 
Just ask those city dwellers that are about to lose everything from the eruption. Not to mention the fires that have engulphed California. Add it all up Bruce and we don’t come close.
But I wasn’t comparing the methane emitted by the volcano to the natural production of methane on a ‘Planet Wide Basis’ I was comparing it to the amount of CO2 and Methane reduced by mankind over the last ten years…
You are quite correct though, mans intervention to stop producing CO2 and Methane won’t even scratch the surface of the overall natural production of these gases, and that’s what makes the whole idea of net zero such a stupid idea. Even if you could convince the whole world to stop producing these greenhouse gases it still wouldn’t make any difference whatsoever to the global balance.
Closing a few coal burning power stations and driving an electric car just won’t cut it when you consider that since the nineties (when you were struggling to find a wind turbine or solar panel) we have have filled our countryside with windmills and solar panels from scratch, and also the hundreds and thousands of new electric vehicles. Do we not produce CO2 and Methane and other toxic gases in the supply of materials and manufacture of all these new planet saving energy producers? And I thought we had to burn something to produce the high temperatures required to make glass for the millions of acres of solar panels?
We use exactly the same amount of energy and produce exactly the same amount of CO2 as we always did, it’s just organised differently. You don’t get anything for nothing in this world.
So just off the top of your head Bruce, can you provide figures for the amount of CO2 and Methane we have saved over the last ten years and compare that with the emissions from the volcano in Ethiopia?
I briefly looked up the volcano and it seems like it would be an interesting tourist destination except for the fact that rebels have been known to kidnap and kill tourists. Visits to the caldera now include a military escort. It’s not a great situation when the volcano is safer than the nearby people.
The notion of geothermal energy is an interesting one, though I doubt Ethiopia has the funding for investment. With every energy source comes problems. The plant in Hawai’i was very nearly overrun by lava a couple of years ago, and if it blew it would release dangerous hydrogen sulfide. That said, it is supplying about a quarter of the electricity for the Big Island. That’s pretty remarkable given how relatively new that technology is.
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Another volcano looks like erupting…
Wow!. Glad we don’t have any.