Publication: Associated Press

UCLA Expert: Aradhna Tripati: Associate Professor, Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences; Professor, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; Professor, Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, Division of Physical Sciences; Faculty Director and Founder, Center for Diverse Leadership in Science

Synopsis: While volcanoes do release some carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, those emissions are dwarfed by emissions from human activity.

UCLA News: Tripati said that volcanoes can emit carbon dioxide at a very high rate, but those rates are only sustained for short amounts of time and don’t come close to matching emissions from human behavior. “That’s not the same as what we’re doing, which is 365 days a year, you know, for decades and decades and decades,” Tripati explained, referring to emissions caused by human activity

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