Posted on 10/17/2014 10:53:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Dark Ages? :') This is a two-list ping topic, and will make an excellent Digest selection, one day early.
Did they think it was in British North American at the time they named it?
Churchill had an American mother and was the first person granted honorary USA citizenship by congress
Wow... if that happened today... the libs will blame the Tea Party.
The good news is volcanic eruptions of Mount Churchill’s size strike only once every 100 years, on average...
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Okay, Becky, if you say so.
Solution: ban all volcanoes. Now.
And Palin
Wait until Yellowstone goes.
That should tell us something about how reliable volcanology is. :’)
Or veterans, or the 1 percent, or the Jews, or Israel, or Sarah Palin.
Okay, so, wth...
Material linked to ancient volcanic eruption in Alaska
Alaska Science Forum | Thursday, January 17, 2013 | Ned Rozell
Posted on 1/19/2013 11:13:22 AM by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2979827/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/mountaniakchak/index
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/may191780/index
Alaska braces for possible volcanic eruption
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1545904/posts
Or Jellystone.
And how ditzy some reporters are.
Years ago I wondered why the Carolingian Empire faded after Charlemagne and then led into the Dark Ages. Then I read a book on nutrition and history. There it explained that in the 100 years after the Emperors death there were over 30 major climate disruptions that led to famine and starvation, some of which last 2 or 3 years. Strange climate caused ergot fungus on rye in northern Europe, and wheat rust in southern Europe played counterpart. Charlemagne died in 814. Mt. Churchill blew in 843, so no doubt was one of the impactors. I will look for others tomorrow.
If you read the article, the “blanket of ash” was vanishingly thin. It is unlikely to have had any significant impact at all in Europe, other than some pretty sunsets. David Key tried to attribute the 6th c “dark ages” onset to a volcano eruption in SE Asia I think it was. That would be even less destructive, unless an even bigger eruption (and much bigger) had taken place, and gone unremarked in, for example, annalists in India and China.
a few small keywords, sorted chrono, with duplicates out:
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