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Sounds to me as if the good Dr is telling porkies. He is not neutral in this debate having come out strongly in the alarmist camp.
a history buff friend was telling me that around the mid 1600's (or so, i can't recall exactly whenbut it was several centuries ago) iceland was setting off one of it's volcanoes big time - and no one could work out why all the healthy young farm labourers in eastern britain were dropping dead in the fields.
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Might be talking about the 1783 Laki eruption?
See ya's.
In reference to the Laki volcano eruption in Iceland, Benjamin Franklin during a lecture in 1784 made the following comments ‘….when the effect of the sun’s rays to heat the earth in these northern regions should have been greater, there existed a constant fog over all Europe, and a great part of North America…’
The Laki volcano eruption in Iceland therefore, effectively eradicated the summer of that year. The sun was obscured by the vast cloud caused by the Laki eruption and, what should have been a warm summer in the northern hemisphere, took on winter proportions, not just in Iceland, but all over Europe. It was reported that the sun either remained as a pale ghost or took on a strange, blood red colour in the volcanic haze.
The repercussions of the Laki Volcano eruption in Iceland resonated throughout Europe for the next few years. The summer of 1783, having been turned to winter was followed by an extreme, harsh winter in 1784, even in North America where it was reported as one of the coldest on record.