{"id":96952,"date":"2019-10-02T16:03:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T23:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/humans-produce-100x-more-co2-than-all-earths-volcanoes-combined"},"modified":"2019-10-02T16:03:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T23:03:41","slug":"humans-produce-100x-more-co2-than-all-earths-volcanoes-combined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/humans-produce-100x-more-co2-than-all-earths-volcanoes-combined","title":{"rendered":"Humans Produce 100x More CO2 Than All Earth\u2019s Volcanoes Combined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humans-produce-100x-more-co2-than-all-earths-volcanoes-combined2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/deepcarbon.net\/scientists-quantify-global-volcanic-co2-venting-estimate-total-carbon-earth\">decade-long study<\/a> by an international team of researchers, human CO2 emissions total 100 times more than the planet-warming effects of all volcanoes combined.<\/p>\n<p>The total amount emitted by volcanoes is only about 0.3 gigatons a year \u2014 a tiny fraction of the <a href=\"https:\/\/deepcarbon.net\/scientists-quantify-global-volcanic-co2-venting-estimate-total-carbon-earth\">37 gigatons<\/a> humankind produced in 2018 alone.<\/p>\n<p>That means they\u2019re not nearly as big of a contributor to global emissions as some prevailing theories hold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a decade-long study by an international team of researchers, human CO2 emissions total 100 times more than the planet-warming effects of all volcanoes combined. The total amount emitted by volcanoes is only about 0.3 gigatons a year \u2014 a tiny fraction of the 37 gigatons humankind produced in 2018 alone. That means they\u2019re [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}