536: The Worst Year to be Alive

[boedicca]

As we see a slow down in solar activity, which leads to global cooling, it's interesting to review the impact of severe cooling. Year 536 has been identified as the worst year to be alive due to volcanic activity which cause an 18 month "fog". It was the beginning of a miserable era of crop failures followed by a double whammy of a second volcanic eruption and the plague. I suspect before too long we will all regret wasting resource on AGW nonsense instead of preparing for the inevitable mini-ice age that is developing as the sun enters a new minimum. And we'd all better hope a major volcanic eruption or two doesn't cause a repeat of this:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/why-536-was-worst-year-be-alive

 

[OldLady]

In Maine, no one has forgotten about the year with no summer--1816. And the prior winter had been so cold that people were freezing to death just going from place to place. In 1816, there was snow every month. It was caused by a volcanic eruption, too, someplace.

It caused a mass exodus from Maine out to the west'ard. There had been a couple of really miserable years, including massive forest fires and all kinds of bullshit.

 

[Sunsettommy]

In Maine, no one has forgotten about the year with no summer--1816. And the prior winter had been so cold that people were freezing to death just going from place to place. In 1816, there was snow every month. It was caused by a volcanic eruption, too, someplace.

It caused a mass exodus from Maine out to the west'ard. There had been a couple of really miserable years, including massive forest fires and all kinds of bullshit.

It was TAMBORA eruption in 1815 that was the main cause:

"The most destructive explosion on earth in the past 10,000 years was the eruption of an obscure volcano in Indonesia called MountTambora. More than 13,000 feet high, Tambora blew up in 1815 and blasted 12 cubic miles of gases, dust and rock into the atmosphere and onto the island of Sumbawa and the surrounding area. Rivers of incandescent ash poured down the mountain’s flanks and burned grasslands and forests. The ground shook, sending tsunamis racing across the JavaSea. An estimated 10,000 of the island’s inhabitants died instantly."

 

[skookerasbil]

Old Rocks and Crick say the sun and volcano's have nothing to do with the climate!

 

[skookerasbil]

In Maine, no one has forgotten about the year with no summer--1816. And the prior winter had been so cold that people were freezing to death just going from place to place. In 1816, there was snow every month. It was caused by a volcanic eruption, too, someplace.

It caused a mass exodus from Maine out to the west'ard. There had been a couple of really miserable years, including massive forest fires and all kinds of bullshit.

I just saw that on the Weather Channel last night. Who knew?

 

[Flash]

Old Rocks and Crick say the sun and volcano's have nothing to do with the climate!

Those morons think climate is caused by us rednecks driving around in our gas guzzling SUVs and trucks.

 

[boedicca]

Old Rocks and Crick say the sun and volcano's have nothing to do with the climate!

Those morons think climate is caused by us rednecks driving around in our gas guzzling SUVs and trucks.

Those silly wabbits. Climate is caused by Gozer.