Climate Change: Man Versus Volcanoes

Mankind wins and it isn’t even close.

ScottCDunn
Nov 2 · 3 min read

A few years ago, I had a debate with someone about climate change on Facebook. He told me that humans are grandiose to think that they are so powerful as to change the climate. Considering the size and scale of the earth compared to us, I took him at his word.

After reading those comments on Facebook, I recalled an article I read in Car and Driver magazine years ago that said that a few volcanoes in the last 250 years had coughed up more carbon dioxide than all of human history…

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