Posted on 01/01/2025 3:28:53 PM PST by logi_cal869
The first sign of an impending cataclysm in the summer of 1831 was an eerie dimming of the Sun, which for days appeared bluish green across the Northern Hemisphere. In the ensuing weeks, foul weather and a long cold snap triggered crop failures and famines in India and Japan. The instigator was long presumed to be a climate-altering plume from a major eruption, but the volcano’s identity had been one of the great unsolved mysteries of volcanology.
“It’s like a whodunit,” says Clive Oppenheimer, a volcanologist at the University of Cambridge.
At long last, the culprit has been unmasked in a report out today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A team led by volcanologist William Hutchison of the University of St. Andrews describes sulfur isotopes and glassy shards of ash deposited in ice core layers dated to 1831 that trace back to an obscure volcano in the remote Kuril Islands north of Japan’s Hokkaido Island.
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That's left field all righty.
Agreed. A good read.
Start of the headline “Ice cores finger” could have been a horror movie scene. Then the rest of the scrawny hand, then the knowledge that hundreds of frozen zombies are thawing due to global warming. Cameo with Al Gore.
Underwater volcanoes, smokers and the rate of core earth heat generation and the rate of its release have far more to do with arctic, antarctic ice thickness and climate changes than ambient air temperatures that may be altered slightly by fossil fuel burning. Not a good idea to needlessly pollute but highly unethical and cruel to implement policies that result in hunger, poverty and misery.
or a porn scene
Ha.
Gives us chills to think about it.
The historic “year without a summer” was 1816. Mount Tambora blamed.
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