Posts Tagged ‘sulfate_aerosol’

It’s happened before.

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

So, in 1816 Tambora exploded with about 4x the energy of Krakatoa. This led to a “stratospheric sulfate aerosol veil” which is lead to have caused the year without summer. 49,000 are estimated to have died from post eruption famine and epidemic diseases. More indirectly it may have influenced to the art of J. M. W. Turner, and led to Frankenstein, the bicycle (and thus the motorcycle), and Mormonism.

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