Hey, doesn’t a single volcano eruption produce more CO2 than all of humanity’s history combined? And aren’t there lots of volcano eruptions every year? Hmm. Maybe making life harder than ever on average people isn’t a sound answer.

No, a single eruption emits far less CO2 than humanity has released. The CO2 levels in our atmosphere have increased 35% in the last 150 years. Volcano eruptions have been the same in that time; what changed is the creation of our industrialized, CO2-emitting civilization.

Not certain the cap-and-trade policy is the best way to stop global warming, but something does need to be done.

It all comes down to whether or not you care about the future 100 years from now.

If you dont then by all means save 30% on your electric bill now and do nothing.

Spend now.. save thousand fold later, just you wont be alive to see the benifits.

I have been wondering if we humans aren’t doing the earth a favor by bringing carbon back above the earth’s surface. Think about it: All of that carbon was above the surface to begin with and when those ancient plants/animals died, the ecosystems lost all of that carbon. Furthermore, the earth has been in a 3 million year cooling cycle, and we could be helping to stabilize the temperature by adding our global warming. Just a thought.