Anthropogenic Global Warming

[HappySqurriel]

Yulegoat said:

Crono said:
Weight is irrelevant. Its volume thats important, and comparing that volume to the total volume of the atmosphere, and the volume of CO2 added by natural causes.

And I didn't say CO2 for Mt. St. Helens, I said greenhouse gasses. Unless you are trying to say that CO2 is the only important greenhouse gas.

Do you agree that human is responsible for the 30% addition of CO2 in the atmosphere?*

I wanted to talk about CO2 because that is the only way we're able to keep this thread in sensible proportions. Otherwise it would blow up to like 22 pages and nobody's going to read it. But I guess that's your goal.

Well, If your last chapter isn't just for distraction, tell me how much and what greenhouse gases St. Helens released, what is the residence time and forcing qualities of those gases and how much sulfur particles etc. were released and what was the cooling effect of the particles.

*Volcanoes are basically the only non-anthropogenic way to add CO2 to the atmosphere from outside of the natural cycle. Other processes, like biological ones, only recycle the carbon in biosphere, they don't add it. So if you're saying volcanoes didin't add the CO2, then it's humans. Remember the isotope analysis?

This is a problem though, as long as we focus on CO₂ we will never see the big picture ...

We know that methane is about 22.5 times as potent of a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide, and we have recently learned that worms produce a gas which is 290 times as potent of a greenhose gas as carbon dioxide. The last statistic I heard was that bugs like worms and termites outweighed humans, and with how potent this gas is a very small quantity of gas produced per worm could have a massive impact.