The day the Earth's climate went berserk

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https://climatenewsnetwork.net/the-day-the-earths-climate-went-berserk/

The day the Earth’s climate went berserk
March 19th, 2019, by Kieran Cooke

The day in 1815 when the world’s climate went berserk was only the start of months and years of global climate disruption and social unrest.

LONDON, 19 March, 2019 ? If you had been in what were then called the Dutch East Indies on 10 April 1815, the day would have been etched indelibly on your memory: it was the day the global climate went berserk.

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Wolfgang Behringer is a climate historian who seeks to draw parallels between what is going on now and events long ago. In particular Behringer, a professor of early modern history at Saarland University in Germany, looks at how changes in climate can influence and shape events – political, economic and social.

In a new book he focuses on the 1815 volcanic explosion of Tambora, on the island of Sumbawa in present-day Indonesia. The eruption still rates as the largest in human history; the cloud that burst from the volcano reached a height of 45 kilometres.

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[BigmanPigman]

1. Someone posted a video about this a few weeks ago on DU.

It was really interesting and led me to research other volcanic eruptions and how the weather around the earth was effected. I learned about other similar eruptions that have changed the weather too.

[OKIsItJustMe]

2. Yes, the "Siberian Traps" are an awesome example

https://www.skepticalscience.com/Burgess-Bowring-2015-Siberian-Traps-Dates.html

[hatrack]

3. I remember reading about this in grade school . . . .

The story was called "The Year Without A Summer", referring to 1816.

The same year was also referred to by New Englanders as "Eighteen Hundred And Froze To Death".