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George Will Misrepresents Climate Change Study

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lostlakehiker2/21/2009 4:50:12 pm PST

re: #774 WhiteRasta

Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines spews more CO2 in a day than humankind produces in a year.

And yes, Carbon Dioxide is just plant food. Without it, there would be no life on earth.
For the loonies to say CO2 is a pollutant is such a ridiculously laughable statement, I find it hard to believe anything they say.

This is just false to fact. Humanity’s CO2 production is so consistent and on such a large scale that it dwarfs the average output of Mt. Pinatubo. On the very day of a big eruption, things might be the other way around, but Pinatubo does not erupt spectacularly, day after day.

You need to make some sort of effort to check your numbers before just making or quoting up claims that are wildly wrong.

Here’s a place to start. Pinatubo CO2 facts. Here is another link: 42 megatons CO2 in Pinatubo eruption. And here is a link with details of how much human CO2 emissions amounted to in 2006. 5.6 gigatons CO2. As you see, it is more than 100 times as much. And Pinatubo does not erupt like that every year, year in year out.

It took me all of five minutes to get this info and post it. Rush Limbaugh’s fact checkers could have done it as easily. So could you.