How many coal fired power stations does it take to equal CO2 output from all the world's volcanoes?

Question

How many coal fired power stations does it take to equal CO2 output from all the world's volcanoes?

Answer 1

Natural earth cycle. the earth is doing 3 major things at the moment.

#1 the rotation is slowing down. Has anyone heard of a "leap second"? They added one on this year. It is always slowing down since nothing is in perpetual motion.

As it's slowing down, as all maleable things do that are not in motion in a vacuum, the earth is trying to form a more perfect sphere. Causing the earthquakes.

#2 the earths magnetic feild is weakening, I forget the measurements at the moment but 50 years ago it was a 6.0 (whatever that is) but now it's at like 4.3. That number is the measurement of it's strength. (don't quote me on that last number, it's been a while since I've been at the nasa site) The magnetic feild is what pulls the suns radiation around the earth to the poles. This is what causes the Northern lights. Weaker the magnetic feild, the weaker the barrier from what heats the earth up is. Causing it to be warmer, with more violent storms. Also heating up the crust to cause movement in the crust from expansion, also causing earthquakes and possibly a volcano or 2. Nasa had this satelite that flew over the earth and took motion pictures with a thermal camera. There is a very, very big volcano building under China, Something like 5 times the size and power of Yellowstone. Which until recently was considered the biggest, and a global killer.

#3 Well three is really more the sun than the earth. But the sun runs in cycles. It gets a hotter temperature and then it cools and then repeats. Like a heartbeat but much slower obviously. It is supposed to be in a period of time where the temperature is dropping, but it is raising instead.

But it's nothing to worry about (except for maybe the rotation slowing down, if you think about it. Something had to start us spinning to begin with right? That means something flew by us with a gravitational force that caused us to spin for hundreds of thousands of years. Since we are not in perpetual motion, something has to spin us again like that. What would happen to our civilization if #1 it did, or #2 it didn't?) The temperatures during the times of rome were much greater than they are even today, so we will survive this "global warming" that has very little to do with us.

How much carbon do you think a volcano releases? How many cars driving how many miles would that take to equal 1 volcano? Think about it. There is nothing that is burning in your car that isn't burning in a volcano.

So in conclusion, yes it's a scam. There are 100's of thousands of scientists who have signed a petition that says there is NO scientific evidence that supports the humans are causing this warming.

I do think we need to stop using oil as a means for transportation though. Kick the legs out of the oil industry and stomp on thier nuts when the fall.

Answer 2

Well, emissions vary from one power plant to another and from year-to-year with volcanoes, but as a concrete example it would take about 6 Scherer power plants (in Juliet, Georgia) to equal the average yearly carbon dioxide output of ALL the world's volcanoes.

Volcanoes don't burn fossil fuels for their heat, that is one reason they rank so far behind humans in CO2 emissions.

Answer 3

Let's do some quick math and find out.  There are over 50,000 coal power plants worldwide.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...

Human CO2 emissions are 150 times greater than volcanic CO2 emissions.

http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/Gases/man....

Electricity and heat account for about 25% of human CO2 emissions.

http://cait.wri.org/figures.php?page=Wor...

Coal accounts for the bulk of that - call it 75%.

So overall you've got (50,000/150)/(0.25 * 0.75) = 1,778 coal power plants = CO2 emissions from all volcanoes worldwide.

That also means that coal power plants alone emit 28 times more CO2 than all volcanoes worldwide.

Answer 4

More than we have. The global warming scare is a fraud.

Answer 5

Volcanoes on land and under the sea release a total of about 200 million tons of CO2 annually. But global fossil fuel emission release 26 - 30 billion tons of CO2 annually, fossil fuel combustion emits around 150 times more CO2 than all of the volcanos annually. Volcanoes release large amounts of SO2 which is a very nasty pollutant, in fact one volcano can contaminate the with SO2 more than all of the coal power plants on earth, CO2 is not a pollutant, that is where people get this subject confused.

Answer 6

Volcanoes are maybe 1% (rough guess) of the problem.  There are maybe 100,000 coal fired power stations.  On that basis, about 1000.

But note that volcanoes cut both ways.  The dust they emit cools the planet.

Note also that CO2 IS a pollutant.  The Supreme Court says so, and pollutant is a legal term, so this is their call.

Answer 7

more then Enough. are u really sure a volcano emits CO2? The gases from a volcano consist of mostly mineral oxides and vaporized larva. the carbon it emits is only by burning the carbon rich soil it passes trough..... try and check again. although it looked the same, it is two very different in composition.