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Subject: Re: The Kilauea Volcano is Erupting Again
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:06:56 -0500
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On 12/24/2024 3:06 PM, Rhino wrote:
> On 2024-12-24 12:07 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> It's spewing billions of tonnes of Co2 into the Earths atmosphere. But
>> sure, keep thinking spending billions of dollars on carbon capture and
>> stopping cow farts is going to change the weather.
>>
>> I wonder how Newsom is going to address this problem (since only 
>> California
>> under his leadership can save the earth, dontcha know). Maybe a per 
>> capita
>> volcano tax on all countries that have them, since It's a proven fact 
>> that
>> if you pay more taxes, the weather will change. (And by proven fact, I 
>> mean
>> a quasi-religious leap of faith.)
>>
>> He's already having to deal with the results of the Stanford study that
>> found that the carbon released by just one moderate-sized wildfire wipes
>> out all the 'climate change' gains of the last 20 years in California. 
>> And
>> how many mid-to-large wildfires do we have every year?
>>
>> Fun fact: the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens released more carbon into the
>> atmosphere than all of humanity has since we split from the Neanderthals.
> 
> I saw a video a couple of years back that was from a PBS series called 
> Eras (which may or may not make it scientific fact AND perceived fact to 
> the Left) that asserted that there was a time that the levels of CO2 in 
> the air were much higher than they are now due to volcanoes but then the 
> levels had gone considerably lower. Given that this was many millions of 
> years before anything resembling human life existed, we know this was 
> NOT caused by men nor repaired by men.
> 
> The only logical deduction to make from this is that the earth harbours 
> its own mechanisms to reduce CO2 that don't depend on people to activate 
> it. Maybe it's time to research that and figure out what that mechanism 
> is. It may well be that the carbon problem will take care of itself 
> without expensive human intervention that is simultaneously frustrated 
> by natural events that release carbon.
> 
> As for Newsom, maybe he can finally allow tax money to be spent on 
> thinning the underbrush that apparently makes the wildfires much worse 
> that they might otherwise be. Instead of protecting obscure species of 
> by protecting their habitats, he could put them in controlled 
> environments that would let them flourish a different way.

Top of my head, yes, the earth does harbor such a mechanism.  It's 
called 'plant life", which indeed goes nuts when there's abundant CO2. 
But I wouldn't count on its promptness to save human civilization.