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It is just me or does it seem like people who study the past like to ascribe major events to a volcanic eruption?
by jostmey 9y ago
It is just me or does it seem like people who study the past like to ascribe major events to a volcanic eruption?
- aaron695 9y agoPeople who make outlandish claims make it into peer review and then into news papers and get funding. People who doing boring true but important things can have a harder time. (Upvoting stories like this means we are part of the problem, but not sure of a solution)
- curtis 9y agoI think it's more that people who study the past ascribe violence (such as revolutions) to people going hungry, and they also associate hunger with short term (on the scale of a few years) climate. Then on top of that, the largest volcanic eruptions (e.g. Tambora [1]) are known to impact the global climate in ways that are measurable, and indeed even observable to the layperson, over the scale of a few years. It seems like it might be a legitimate line of scientific inquiry. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1815_eruption_of_Mount_Tambora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1815_eruption_of_Mount_Tambora