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Don’t believe the spin of the climate change deniers
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From Nick Palmer, spokesman, Jersey Climate Action Network.
YOUR correspondent Julius Olsen (JEP, 21 April) wonders how the emissions of the Icelandic volcano compare with greenhouse emissions ‘from the world’s motor vehicles and other sources such as flatulent cattle’.
The simple answer, with no need for debate, is that humanity’s daily emissions far outstrip those from this particular volcano, during this active eruption, by over 300 times.
The volcano is only creating a tiny amount – less than a third of one percentage point – of our emissions. Indeed, according to the US Geological Survey, all the volcanoes in the world generate about 200 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, while our fossil-fuelled activities cause some 24 billion tons of excess CO2 emissions every year worldwide.
What we do completely dwarfs the global emissions from all the volcanoes in the world, including the undersea ones, by over 100 times.
Among more than 100 crafted myths, spread by the global warming denialist industry, is that just one volcano emits more greenhouse gases than the whole of mankind’s activities and maybe Mr Olsen has been misled by this propaganda. This disinformation is so far from the truth that correcting it is very easy.
Unfortunately, some of the rest of the anti-global warming science spin requires specialist knowledge to see through. Assessing the scientific credibility and consistency of the source of information is critical to avoid being deceived.
Internationally, in the climate science blogosphere, there is now a movement calling for authoritative statements from world leaders to be made, hammering home the scientific message, and the consequences of inaction, to counter the relentless onslaught of deceptive fog created by the denialist industry’s misleading and manufactured controversies, which are deliberately spread through the ordinary media where they can fool the most people.
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