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Originally Posted by FishermanTim
Do you think that the Iceland volcano ash had anything to do with that?
Remember that there was a massive volcanic eruption in the late 1800's that threw up so much ash that we had snow in June.
Just a scaled-down version of the dust cloud effect that would result from a major meteor strike (like the one that hit the Yucatan Peninsula).
That would be the more likely cause than "global warming" as it currently has been described.
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What are you implying? That it warmed the atmosphere? It actually works in the inverse to that. Volcanic eruptions do have global implications, when large enough, the sulpher and other particles cool the earth by reflecting incoming solar radiation. This was noted after Krakatoa in the late 1800's with the 'year w/o a summer'
I'm no volcanologist, but I don't think the volume of material erupted was large enough to cause any significant global impacts, beyond travel in planes at the time.