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Amber
Not really, and not on a global scale. He mentions the dramatic drop in temperature noticed locally just days after the explosion, but he spends longer talking about the effects on artists of the dramatically colored sunsets and other visual atmospheric effects for months afterward. He begins discussing the longer-term climatic effects, but for some reason veers off track and spends more time talking about other historical volcanic eruptions that resulted in widespread crop failures, livestock deaths, and mass migrations of people, instead of talking about the effects of THIS eruption.
Mike
farming life was affective and people were hungry. Industrialization was in its infancy and I wold imagine with the famine that metro areas probably saw an increase in workers.
Suzanne L.
I remember him discussing what a cold winter and summer there was after the explosion, but I cannot recall that there was major economic damage to the world afterward. Perhaps due to the cold summer there were less crops (a remember him saying there was a very short growing season).
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Jan 30, 2022 02:32PM