CO2 – that favorite villain of climate alarmists – is an invisible, odorless, colorless gas exhaled by humans, and emitted via combustion engines and various industrial processes. It also happens to be essential to plant life (and therefore all life) on planet earth. So it’s a really good thing that we carbon-based units aren’t the only source of this crucial trace gas. In fact according to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)’s own Carbon Cycle Model, humans account for only three percent of the carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere each year; which is probably just an educated guess.
 
By far and away, the vast majority of CO2 comes from volcanoes. That’s been the case since the world was created ~

(Since then) a lifetime supply of primordial carbon has been locked away in the mantle — against its will. Partnering with oxygen and smuggled as a dissolved gas in liquid rock, it breaches the surface at our planet’s volcanic airways: CO2, then, has been seeping into the planet’s atmosphere for as long as there has been one.

[Source: Live Science]

 
 
The levels trapped under the surface are staggering. In fact the more scientists study volcanoes, the higher the amounts of of CO2 they discover ~

In 1992, it was thought that volcanic degassing released something like 100 million tons of CO2 each year. Around the turn of the millennium, this figure was getting closer to 200. The most recent estimate, released this February, comes from a team led by Mike Burton, of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology – and it’s just shy of 600 million tons. It caps a staggering trend: A six-fold increase in just two decades.

 
And the more we learn about them, the more there is to learn ~

People are constantly discovering new volcanoes, like a 3,000m one off Indonesia that no one realized was there til 2010. It turns out the second largest volcano in the solar system is apparently not on Io, but 1,000 miles east of Japan. It’s the size of the British Isles, but who knew? A few months ago a team found 91 new volcanoes under Antarctica.

[Source: JoNova]

So just how much CO2 is out there waiting to be leaked – or belched out – of the mantle? We may never know.
 
But volcanologists do suspect that another big one is fixing to blow ~ Iceland’s monster volcano is charging up for an eruption ~

The Katla volcano, hidden beneath the ice cap of Mýrdalsjökull glacier in (south-central) Iceland, has historically erupted violently once every 40-80 years. In-as-much as it’s last such eruption took place one hundred years ago, in 1918, Katla’s next eruption is long overdue.

A new study by Icelandic and British geologists showed that Katla is emitting enormous quantities of CO2 – at least 20 kilotons of CO2 every day. Only two volcanoes worldwide are known to emit more CO2, Evgenia Ilyinskaya a volcanologist with the University of Leeds told the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service RÚV.
 
These enormous CO2 emissions confirm significant activity in the volcano, Evgenia told RÚV: “There must also be a magma build up to release this quantity of gas.”

More than anything, the very existence of volcanic activity above – and below – the surface, raises many more questions about naturally-occurring CO2 levels and how they affect the climate. And it would certainly be more worthwhile to study the principal source of this life-sustaining gas than to obsess over the relatively insignificant amounts produced by human activities.
 
Of course that would mean the one-world-government, global elitists would have to give up on “climate-change” as a scam to frighten the peasants into compliance – and invent another hoax.
 
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FOUR of Iceland’s volcanoes are on the brink of erupting ~ UK Daily Mail, Feb. 2017

With 130 volcanoes – both active and inactive – Iceland is one of the most intensely volcanic places in the world.
 
An expert has now warned that four of the country’s biggest volcanoes are priming to erupt, which could lead to travel chaos.
 
The volcanoes in question are Katla, Hekla, Bárðarbunga and Grímsvötn – three of which have already erupted in the last 20 years.