Year Without a Summer
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The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C. Summer temperatures in Europe that year w
The Monk by the Sea (ca. 1808–1810)
Two Men by the Sea (1817)
Chichester Canal (1828) by J. M. W. Turner
Volcanic winter
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A volcanic winter is a reduction in global temperatures caused by droplets of sulfuric acid obscuring the Sun and raising Earth's albedo after a large, sulfur-rich, particularly explosive volcanic eru
Year Without a Summer
…and 2000, resulting in crop failures and major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere. Evidence suggests that the anomaly was predominantly a volcanic winter event caused by the massive eruption of Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia) in April 1815. This eruption was the largest in…
The supervolcano caldera Lake Toba