This day in history June 8, 2019
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Started by metmike - June 8, 2019, 1:03 a.m.

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1783Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.

2007Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.


Not the worst ever but the worst in 3 decades......when it was even worse!


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By metmike - June 8, 2019, 1:11 a.m.
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Laki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laki


"The Laki eruption and its aftermath caused a drop in global temperatures, as 120 million tons of sulfur dioxide was spewed into the Northern Hemisphere.  This caused crop failures in Europe and may have caused droughts in North Africa and India.

The winter of 1783–1784 was very severe;[20] the naturalist Gilbert White in Selborne, Hampshire, reported 28 days of continuous frost. The extreme winter is estimated to have caused 8,000 additional deaths in the UK. During the spring thaw, Germany and Central Europe reported severe flood damage.[11]

The meteorological impact of Laki continued, contributing significantly to several years of extreme weather in Europe. In France, the sequence of extreme weather events included a surplus harvest in 1785 that caused poverty for rural workers, as well as droughts, bad winters and summers. These events contributed significantly to an increase in poverty and famine that may have contributed to the French Revolution in 1789.[21]  Laki was only one factor in a decade of climatic disruption, as Grímsvötn was erupting from 1783 to 1785, and there may have been an unusually strong El Niño effect from 1789 to 1793.[22]

Consequences in North America

In North America, the winter of 1784 was the longest and one of the coldest on record.  It was the longest period of below-zero temperatures in New England, with the largest accumulation of snow in New Jersey, and the longest freezing over of Chesapeake Bay, where Annapolis, Maryland is, then the capital of the United States; the weather delayed Congressmen in coming to Annapolis to vote for the Treaty of Paris, which formally ended the American Revolutionary War.  A huge snowstorm hit the South; the Mississippi River froze at New Orleans and there were reports of ice floes in the Gulf of Mexico."



Global cooling =droughts=famines=extreme weather=life threatening cold=death=climate crisis

Global warming=record crops=greening planet=favorable for life=climate optimum=manufactured climate crisis