The simmering volcano in Grindavik will wreak a lot of havoc when it erupts. What it won’t do is spew more carbon dioxide into the air than all of humanity.
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The simmering volcano in Grindavik will wreak a lot of havoc when it erupts. What it won’t do is spew more carbon dioxide into the air than all of humanity.
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The volcano in Grindavik, Iceland, will wreak a lot of havoc when it erupts, possibly in a matter of hours. It’s already triggering thousands of earthquakes.
It could roil European aviation, as an Icelandic volcano did in 2010. It could swallow a fishing village that 3,600 people call home. It has closed down the Blue Lagoon thermal spa, spoiling countless honeymoons.
What it will not do is spew more carbon dioxide into the air than all of humanity. It would almost not be worth typing that sentence except that social media is once again filling up with such claims, as it almost always does when volcanoes make news.
Even volcanoes know not to be a-holes on climate change.