Please buy carbon offsets (from Risky Schemer AlGore) for the Philippine volcano (Mayon Volcano about to erupt & spew CO2)
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erupt & spew CO2)
American Thinker ^ | 12/21/2009 | Ethel Fenig
Posted on Monday, December 21, 2009 12:39:27 PM by SeekAndFind
While the environmentalists and climate change cultists were freezing their
butts off worrying about saving the planet because of global warming and
atmospheric pollution caused by carbon dioxide, the planet itself didn't
seem to want to be saved. Or maybe the planet has to destroy itself to save
itself. Or something.
Anyway, off in the Philippines, Mount Mayon volcano has
had a total of 248 volcanic quakes and tremors since Monday.
In a statement, Phivolcs director Renato Solidum explained that 50 of these
events were explosion-type, wherein minor explosions produced volcanic
earthquakes and tremors.
"However, only seven were observed during times of good visibility. These
explosions produced dark gray to dark brown ash columns that reached a
maximum height of up to 1,000 meters above the summit before drifting
southwest," Solidum said.
And what is in that ash? According to Rio Rose Ribaya of the Manila Bulletin
Experts said volcanoes emit hazardous gases such as carbon dioxide, sulfur
dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, radon, hydrogen chloride, hydrofluoric acid, and
sulfuric acid. Inhaling these gases may lead to anoxia, a state where oxygen
is low that can lead to mental confusion, hallucination and amnesia, among
other conditions.
Volcanic air pollution can also cause acute bronchitis, the Centers for
Disease Control (CDC) in the US said.
The website of the Atlanta-based pool of experts said these dangerous gases
cause acute bronchitis, the inflammation of the airways of the lungs.
And of course the hot lava flow burns everything in its path on the ground.
While some on the fringe will undoubtedly blame volcanic eruption on humans,
volcanoes have been belching this unhealthy stuff into the atmosphere for
millions of years.
As a result of these eruptions and ensuing global pollution will the world
suffer another period of global cooling and darkness as happened nearly 200
years ago after Mount Tambora in Indonesia came alive in 1815, sending
thousands of tons of gases and particles into the atmosphere, leaving a
thick haze which caused misery around the world for several years. NPR did a
story on it two years ago.
And something did go wrong in 1816, known as "the year without summer."
Temperatures dropped, crops failed and people starved.
"Hundreds of thousands of people died. People were reduced to eating rats
and fighting over roots," Webb says. "Most of these people were killed by
epidemic disease, [such as] typhus and other things related to starvation.
They simply couldn't find enough food."
In America, New Englanders saw snow well into the summer - the average
temperature in July and August was 5 to 10 degrees below normal, according
to Webb.
Hmmm, can Mother Nature be fined for violating cap 'n' trade and spewing
dangerous carbon dioxide into the atmosphere or will someone, anyone in
Hollywood please, please buy carbon offsets for the Philippine volcano?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412329/posts%3fpage=30
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