{"id":10590,"date":"2017-03-31T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T04:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10590"},"modified":"2017-03-31T00:00:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T04:00:44","slug":"which-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-volcanoes-or-human-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/03\/which-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-volcanoes-or-human-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Which emits more carbon dioxide&#8211;volcanoes or human activities?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I occasionally hear someone say that volcanoes emit more carbon dioxide than any manmade source. \u00a0The blog at NOAA&#8217;s <em>Climate.gov<\/em> discusses this &#8220;fact&#8221; and shows that in fact human activities such as burning fossil fuels, deforestation and cement production put out 60 times as much CO2 as natural sources like volcanic eruptions. \u00a0Of course, for short periods when a large eruption is underway the carbon dioxide emissions might be higher, but the global annual average is really quite small compared to our manmade production. \u00a0Volcanoes also put out aerosols which promote global cooling, but that effect only lasts for a few years even for the biggest eruptions. \u00a0You can read the blog at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/climate-qa\/which-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-volcanoes-or-human-activities\">https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/climate-qa\/which-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-volcanoes-or-human-activities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2820\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2820\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/calbuco-volcano-eruption-philip-oyarzo-calisto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2820\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/calbuco-volcano-eruption-philip-oyarzo-calisto-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/calbuco-volcano-eruption-philip-oyarzo-calisto-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/calbuco-volcano-eruption-philip-oyarzo-calisto-245x138.jpg 245w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/calbuco-volcano-eruption-philip-oyarzo-calisto.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Philip Oyazo Calisto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I occasionally hear someone say that volcanoes emit more carbon dioxide than any manmade source. \u00a0The blog at NOAA&#8217;s Climate.gov discusses this &#8220;fact&#8221; and shows that in fact human activities such as burning fossil fuels, deforestation and cement production put out 60 times as much CO2 as natural sources like volcanic eruptions. \u00a0Of course, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":2820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10591,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590\/revisions\/10591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}