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Politics : Is Secession Doable? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (1168)	11/14/2004 7:57:20 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1968

"So what? Is sulfur dioxide causing the hole in the ozone layer?" Not directly. But sulfur dioxide is nasty stuff. Volcanoes are also potent sources of carbon dioxide and have been implicated in previous warming episodes in the past. Bottom line, volcanoes can have a global effect that extends beyond the dust they emit. They can cause prompt cooling, but they can also result in long term warming and ozone destruction. The big risk, like with the human generated CO2, is if changing the energy balance results in warming of deep water in the oceans. That can cause the clathrates to become unstable and then things start to get interesting pretty quickly... No question volcanoes can effect the weather at least temporarily but its never been proven conclusively that they can change the weather long term. But the original point of the article was why are we encouraging such a possibility by doing what we are doing to pollute the air? And that question still stands..........volcanoes or no volcanoes.