Explanation. I was in a different FML story commenting. My phone had been left on that page for some time. I came back to my phone later and pressed the "spill the beans" button. I noticed that my mobile data was off. So I turned it back on and my comment still wasn't posting. I copied it refreshed the page and pasted it and posted it. It was completely unrelated and had to quickly edit it. I apologize for my completely unrelated comment.

No, it was not. Volcanos CAN change the climate by distributing huge amounts of dust in the air that then blocks out the sun. It is basically the same what would happen in a nuclear winter. And volcanos have already done that. When the Krakatau literally exploded in 1883, the global temperature dropped between 0.5 and 0.8 °C for several years. And it is absolutely possible that an erupting super-volcano could be the end of mankind.

Well, more likely that if all or most of the world's volcanoes erupted at once... Which is unlikely to happen to begin with. But normally volcano eruptions only drop local climates a few degrees, certainly not worldwide.

Bullshit. The human effects on climate are far more limited to localised factors like "heat island" and minor atmospheric changes. Volcanic eruptions on the other hand have created ice ages, mini ice ages, cold summers, record winters, all around the world in a single eruption. Man is not a threat to the planet, the planet is a threat to us. The planet is fine, the people are ******

The majority of scientists who study this disagree with you.

@45 literally every non oil company climate expert disagrees with you. Every single one. The only people who agree with you are paid to push that line, or are too ignorant on the subject and shouldn't be involved in dealing with it the same way they shouldn't be performing open heart surgery.

So, where were the humans when all those pesky ice ages happened long ago? Or when Antarctica was lush and green? Clearly our climate was static until evil man appeared and changed it all! Killed all the dinosaurs for leather purses and created the ice ages with nuclear warfare! MAAAANNNN!

@38--Seriously, both sides of the 'human vs natural' debate have serious scientific flaws. We DON'T have a control group, nor a repeatable set of experiments, nor a wealth of historical data to work from (try finding the 1963 high temperature in Mogadishu). Chill out and don't judge people, just the merits of the actual arguments and evidence they present.