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The Effects of Volcanoes on Climate

The 1879 eruption was... 1815? 1815 gave us a year without a summer. You said these are 50 times... Yes, so these eruptions. So what would be the climate impacts of such a... Well, I guess immediately after the eruption, or for a few years after that,. We'd expect to have a cooling because we've got this dispersed ash and sulfur dioxide going up into the Earth's atmosphere.

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