Posted on 05/06/2014 6:31:44 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
Thomas Jefferson went broke, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, and Arctic exploration got a new life, all because a massive volcano erupted in 1815.
If you think this winter was unseasonably long and cold, you’re playing history’s tiniest violin.
Instead, with a year without summer, famines on multiples continents, an explosion in the Chinese opium trade, the global scourge of cholera, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a golden age of Arctic exploration, and modern meteorology on its résumé, that distinction belongs to Tambora and its eruption in 1815 on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia.
That story, and its portentous lessons on the consequences of global climate disturbances, is told with particular élan and a flair for the dramatic in Gillen D’Arcy Wood’s Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World.
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Such a thing is just as likely today.
Whether we spend trillions of dollars on AGW conferences and “amelioration”, or whether we ignore the AlGorians and kick back and crank up the BBQ, a volcano can really put a damper on it.
Obama is the man that destroyed the world.
Took away thousands of our freedoms, bankrupted our nation, destroyed the best healthcare system in the world and loosed all the big bad men on the planet to do whatever they want.
Could very well be the catalyst for the economic collapse of the whole world too, if not WWIII and the nuclear catastrophe that we so greatly feared in the ‘70’s.........
All it takes is just ONE volcano to stop ‘Globull Warming’ dead in its tracks.................Okay, let’s nuke one and see what happens. Okay, UN, Any volunteers?........................I didn’t think so........................
The cold weather prevented crops from being harvested in many places. Recently I looked on FamilySearch.org at some records from a village in Europe where some of my relatives were living. It was a small village with a few hundred people, usually 2 to 4 deaths a year. In 1817 (there were no online records for 1816), there were 40 deaths, including 34 attributed to hunger or starvation. Practically all of them were adults, with a couple of teenagers. It looks like they saw to it that the children got what little food there was available.
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