Posted AT 6:00 AM EST on 13/06/08
Climate cures: Technology, not ideology
In April, 1815, a cataclysmic volcanic eruption on an Indonesian island spewed vast quantities of sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere, where – reflecting solar radiation back into space – it cooled the planet (as a global average) by 0.7 C for more than three years. The most destructive volcanic episode of modern times, Mount Tambora's global cooling helped produce a 30-centimetre snowfall in Quebec City 14 months later – on June 10, 1816.
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