{"id":1510660,"date":"2022-06-10T15:50:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T19:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1510660"},"modified":"2022-06-10T15:50:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T19:50:57","slug":"fact-check-did-a-recent-volcanic-eruption-emit-more-co2-than-mankind-has-ever-produced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-a-recent-volcanic-eruption-emit-more-co2-than-mankind-has-ever-produced\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did A Recent Volcanic Eruption Emit More CO2 Than Mankind Has Ever Produced?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-a-recent-volcanic-eruption-emit-more-co2-than-mankind-has-ever-produced%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1510660&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><span>A post <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beverly.calhoun.9\/posts\/10209368015514054\"><span>shared on Facebook<\/span><\/a><span> claims a recent volcanic eruption at Mount Etna emitted 10,000 times more carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere than mankind has in its entire history on Earth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence to support such a statement. Volcanologists agreed the claim is false.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mount Etna, also called the Sicilian Monticello, is an active volcano located on the eastern coast of Sicily, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Mount-Etna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Britannica<\/a>. The volcano is considered the most active in Europe, with some recent eruptions lasting several weeks or months, the encyclopedia states.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook post makes the claim that a recent \u201cburp\u201d from the volcano emitted a huge amount of CO2 into the atmosphere. \u201cThat one little burp by Mt Etna has already put more than 10,000 times the CO2 into the atmosphere than mankind has in our ENTIRE time on earth,\u201d the image\u2019s text reads. \u201cBut don\u2019t worry a scam is in the works to tax you your minuscule footprint\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>This claim is incorrect.\u00a0While there are <a href=\"https:\/\/d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net\/44541104\/Rates_of_carbon_dioxide_plume_degassing_20160408-9940-13jc4nn-with-cover-page-v2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scholarly<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/eprints.whiterose.ac.uk\/79771\/1\/peringt%20CO2%20archive%20version.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">articles<\/a> documenting carbon emissions from Mt. Etna\u2019s recent eruptions, there are no articles making the specific claim offered in the Facebook post. <\/span><span>Human activities emit approximately 60 times the amount of carbon dioxide that volcanoes do per year, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/climate-qa\/which-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-volcanoes-or-human-activities\"><span>Climate.gov<\/span><\/a><span>.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cVolcanoes definitely do not emit nearly as much CO2 as human activity,\u201d said volcanologist <a href=\"https:\/\/meas.sciences.ncsu.edu\/people\/asoldat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arianna Soldati<\/a> in an email to Check Your Fact. She directed Check Your Fact to a statement from the <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/E3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Smithsonian Institution<\/a> debunking the claim that volcanic eruptions contribute to global warming. <span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/01\/21\/fact-check-video-volcanic-eruption-tonga-simulation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Video Show A Volcanic Eruption In Tonga?)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>Totally untrue,\u201d said volcanologist <a href=\"https:\/\/personal.denison.edu\/~klemettie\/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erik Klemetti<\/a> in an email to Check Your Fact when asked about the viral claim. He pointed to a 2011 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2011\/06\/why-volcanism-isnt-the-source-of-increasing-carbon-dioxide-emissions\/amp\"><span>article<\/span><\/a><span> he authored for Wired titled \u201cWhy volcanism isn\u2019t the source of increasing carbon dioxide emissions.\u201d <\/span><span>The article references a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/volcanoes.usgs.gov\/vsc\/file_mngr\/file-154\/Gerlach-2011-EOS_AGU.pdf\"><span>study<\/span><\/a><span> from the United States Geological Survey that estimates volcanoes emit 0.13-0.44 billion metric tons of CO2 per year, while humans emit 35 gigatons per year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time misinformation has been linked to a volcanic eruption. Check Your Fact previously <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/01\/25\/fact-check-dead-fish-tonga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> a viral post that claimed to show three photos of dead fish that washed up on Tonga\u2019s shores after a volcanic eruption in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post shared on Facebook claims a recent volcanic eruption at Mount Etna emitted 10,000 times more carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere than mankind has in its entire history<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}