~[FGS]SaSQuATcH~ wrote:A single volcanic explosion can release the amount of CO2 mankind releases in a year. A big one though.
In a year? I read that a single eruption can cool the earth as long as a decade or even a century. There was one that caused a decade of cool weather in 1800s, and I think there was a smaller but still massive one in the 70s somewhere.
Chinese is right, Global climate change is a more precise title.
Nature is so volatile that anything can happen. While we know that our temperature is changing because of different factors, next supermassive eruption may take place anytime anywhere bringing the next ice age upon us, just like that, out of the blue. Recent scientific discoveries have proven time and time again that while we can spot big chunks out in space on a colision course with Earth, we are pretty much clueless as to what is happening beneath our own feet.