Thanks Slicksadick.
Posted on 08/25/2015 11:30:14 AM PDT by C19fan
In April 1815, the most powerful volcanic blast in recorded history shook the planet in a catastrophe so vast that 200 years later, investigators are still struggling to grasp its repercussions. It played a role, they now understand, in icy weather, agricultural collapse and global pandemics — and even gave rise to celebrated monsters.
Around the lush isles of the Dutch East Indies — modern-day Indonesia — the eruption of Mount Tambora killed tens of thousands of people. They were burned alive or killed by flying rocks, or they died later of starvation because the heavy ash smothered crops.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Bush’s fault.
Andrew Jackson’s fault...
Climate change.
bfl
“... twelve cubic miles of earthen matter to a height of more than twenty five miles.”
Can’t even imagine that!
As an aside my Grandfather(died 1950) remembered the colored sunsets occasioned by the explosion of Krakatoa.
Sure. Easy. Imagine coal fires burning - in power stations. Think of all that carbon. Tons and tons of it. /SARC
1816 was the “year without a summer” because the ash from this volcano prevented enough sunlight to have normal temperatures...in much of Europe the crops would not ripen because of the lack of warm weather, and thousands died of famine in the aftermath, especially in 1817. I think at least 3 of my direct ancestors died of starvation in 1817 as part of that (they were living in Europe).
Nope can’t happen, expert FReepers will be along shortly to explain why.
Fascinating article...thanks!
We have 128 days left to fear darkness falling upon us in the year 2015. After that we are good to go. Unless... the Shemitah and “harbinger” stuff doesn’t get us in less than 30 days.
I have no clue which to fear most. ini mini myni mo catch a scientist by the toe. yuk
BTW, We won’t starve. GMO crops will survive.
Shhhhh. Gee NYTimes, don’t let the warmist alarmist crowd see that you think temperature was not flat for 1,0000 years before the last 20th century.
Ping for your list...
Thanks Slicksadick.
There was a movie or book about that explosion: “Krakatoa: East of Java” was the name, the only problem was that Krakatoa is west of Java.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064555/
PLOT: “The Dutch East Indies, in the late 19th century. Capt. Hanson of the “Batavia Queen” is preparing to embark on a salvage expedition. His mistress, Laura, knows the location of a ship belonging to her late husband, a shipwreck concealing a cargo of rare pearls. A diver and a diving bell are aboard ship. But a government agent coerces Hanson into accepting a shipment of convicts for the ship’s hold. The wreck lies dangerously close to the erupting volcano on the island of Krakatoa, where Laura’s young son attends the convent school...”
The next year the British sent an expedition to the arctic to look for the Northwest Passage. They found an open waterway almost all the way through, but, turned back fearing getting caught in ice.
Dust and soot from Tambora may have been the cause of this, as dark material will help ice to melt.
After that, it came back again.
WHOOPS — Krakatoa wasn’t until 1883, 68 years after Tambora erupted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1815_eruption_of_Mount_Tambora
“An overarching goal was to separate natural climate fluctuations from those of human origin. One after another, studies came back to New England and its frigid summer of 1816.”
Think they found any human interventions?
Dang, “It also transported him to Tambora, where he braved leeches and razor-sharp leaves to peer across its yawning caldera, four miles from rim to rim.”
hmmm. You know how people explain the 10 Plagues of Egypt naturally by going up the food chain? I wonder if anyone can do that with all the prophecy in Revelation. I want to know how the wind will stop all over the earth and what that will do. It’s been bugging me. ;-)
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