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I really wish you were taken more seriously. I worked at AFWA (Offutt AFB) from 2002 to 2004. I worked at the Global Wx and Event desk where we tracked hurricanes, volcanic activity, haboob's and more! I am no Phd scientist, but thoroughly enjoyed the conversations|discussions|arguments on "climate change."

I would stare at a large monitor and pick out a volcanic plume easily while the city of Quito was not even recognizable. I would really have to hunt for LA or San Francisco in comparison to a giant haboob in the ME. Your standard cold front is more recognizable than any major city from the satellites we used (30m, 15m, 10m mostly).

Pondering how often these volcanoes erupt and send horrific gases aloft, it is hard to say; "Humans are doing it ALL!" Not to mention the thousands (tens, or hundreds of thousands?) of underwater volcanoes that emit all sorts of horribleness.

Then you contemplate that the Earth has been here for 4 billion years + or - a few million... How much hubris do we have to measure for a couple hundred years and say unequivocally; "Humans DID this!!!" It seems a bit...

It's true that undersea volcanoes emit lots of stuff.

Key point, though: we are currently in a lull of the total amount of oceanic volcano activity. Compared to what's usual, they're contributing less CO2 pollution to global temperatures than what they usually do.

And yet temperatures are still rising, despite the countervailing influence of volcano activity. Whatever could it be? Sun spots? Saturn entering the first house of Sagittarius? The anger of Zeus? Slenderman getting his jollies on?

Too bad there aren't any people who study this professionally.

Seems a bit what? I really wish I could take you more seriously. There is undoubted, undeniable evidence that human factors caused this bleaching effect. Yes humans are doing it ALL.

It is not up for debate.

"The results suggest that the thermal toler- ances of reef-building corals are likely to be exceeded every year within the next few decades. Events as severe as the 1998 event, the worst on record, are likely to become commonplace within 20 years. Most information suggests that the capacity for acclimation by corals has already been exceeded, and that adap- tation will be too slow to avert a decline in the quality of the worldís reefs. The rapidity of the changes that are predicted indicates a major problem for tropical marine ecosystems and suggests that unrestrained warming cannot occur without the loss and degradation of coral reefs on a global scale."

Predicted 17 years ago.

http://www.publish.csiro.au/MF/pdf/MF99078

Well isn't that exactly it? Volcanos and all these natural outputs have been here for a while. But we're breaking records on global earth temperature and CO2 levels.

Here's a great, and thorough analysis:

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/how-tesla-will-change-your-lif...

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