Human Activities Emit Way More Carbon Dioxide Than Do Volcanoes

Human Activities Emit Way More Carbon Dioxide Than Do Volcanoes
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 21, 2011 -
On average, human activities put out in just three to five days the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide that volcanoes produce globally each year. So concludes a scientist who reviewed five published studies of present-day global volcanic carbon dioxide emissions and compared those emissions to anthropogenic (human- induced) carbon dioxide output. "The most frequent question that I have go ... more

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