Volcano Emissions vs Greenhouse gasses

Researcher at University of Colorado claimed that volcano emission reduce the effect of global warming. The small amount of sulfur dioxide from earth surface rise to the stratosphere area (it is 12 to 20 miles from earth) where the chemicals were reacted with sulfur dioxide and water particles that reflect to sunlight back to space and cause the planet to be cool.
“This new study indicates it is emissions from small to moderate volcanoes that have been slowing the warming of the planet,” said Ryan Neely, who led the research as part of his CU-Boulder doctoral thesis.
The report noted that the increasing stratospheric aerosols have been caused to increase 25 percent of global warming due to greenhouse gas emission since 2000. Unfortunately, the data that was collected in 10 years, it is not enough to determine the climate change trends. But overall, volcanic emission goes up and down, and helps the planet to get cool but greenhouse gases continuously goes up and are a major factor of global warming.

 University of Colorado Boulder, 2013, Environmental Protection, retrieved from https://eponline.com/articles/2013/03/04/volcano-emissions-effect-global-warming.aspx

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