[BGHater]

A recent, blast from the past. Sorry.

Year Without a Summer

Mount Tambora

[BGHater]

Catastrophe, not our fault ping

[BeerLover NYC]

Too bad Al Gore and Michael Moore weren’t around 74K years ago!

[SoftwareEngineer]

You know... Indonesia is really beginning to P*ss me Off!!

What is with all their volcanoes being so savagely destructive????

Krakatoa and now Toba and who knows what else!!!!

They need to come to the Big Island on Hawaii to see how nice well raised well behaved volcanoes behave!

[Moonman62]

"The results virtually eliminate mega volcanic eruptions as one of the key drivers of global-scale glaciation," says climatologist Ellen Mosley-Thompson of Ohio State University in Columbus, who was not involved in the study. So, paleoclimatologists should focus on more likely climate coolers, she says, such as changes in ocean circulation or cyclical variations in Earth's orbit around the sun.

Still, if Toba erupted today like it did in the past, the results would be catastrophic. Although the volcano isn't expected to blow its top for thousands of years, Robock and colleagues estimate a megaeruption could lower global temperatures by as much as 17°C for several years, followed by a recovery to normal conditions that could take decades. That would hit the human population with the double whammy of dramatically reduced agricultural production and widespread loss of vegetation, leading to widespread food shortages and starvation.

What you won't hear from the media or politicians today is that we're still in an Ice Age and warming should be the least of our concerns.

[trumandogz]

Can’t be true since the earth is much less than 74,000 years old. /sarcasm

[reg45]

One of the effects of this volcanic event was the elimination of all but a few thousand humans.

[Little Bill]

ping

[AbeKrieger]

Maybe Al Gore and Obama can build us one of these mo-fos to solve our overheatin’ issues. Yo.

[BGHater]

Dam, nevermind, already posted. I hate keyword search.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) but alas...

Ancient Supervolcano’s Eruption Caused Decade Of Severe Winters
ScienceDaily | July 2, 2009 | Unknown
Posted on 07/03/2009 5:39:20 AM PDT by decimon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2284760/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BGHater!

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[djf]

A thousand times as much as St. Helens?
Try TEN THOUSAND!!

Global temps crashed like 7-10 degrees Celsius for a thousand years, worldwide, human population is estimated to have fallen to about 5,000 individuals.

Unless I’m mistaken, this was the largest supervolcano event in like the last 500,000 years or so.

This is one of Blam’s faves, ask him about it.

[djf]

The Toba caldera.