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Last login: 5 weeks agoVeritatis: veritatis is a guy from RIP, IN, Tokelau.; Likes 112 pages, 2 videos, 5 photos • 7 fans • Received 5 reviews; Member since Feb 19, 2008

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Photo: Ancient Global Dimming Linked to Volcanic Eruption: Mar 20, 4:42am 2 reviews •http://news.nationalgeographic.com/ne...; There is quite a bit of evidence that points to that this hypothesis does not hold water. This is not to say that there were no volcanic eruptions as has been evidenced in the icecores. Dendrochronologist Mike Baillie explores this in depth in his book "New Light on the black Death: The cosmic connection" and he points to another cause that much evidence supports. He writes:
"The problem was that several lines of reasoning actually suggested that the volcano hypothesis did not make much sense. For example, the events in the trees tended to last for longer than volcanologists were comfortable with. The volcanic material, even from a big explosive eruption, is not injected all that high into the stratosphere; thus over just a few years it should rain out."
Even a big eruption would have been washed out after 3 years according to volcanologists. But the event of AD 536 lasted for most of a decade!!!

From the page: "Filipino farmers plow their rice fields as Indonesia's Mount Pinatubo spews ash following a major eruption in this photo taken July 8, 1991.

A year-long global cooling followedā€"but it was nothing compared to a massive cooling event in A.D. 536 that withered crops, sparked wars, and helped spread pestilence.

Now scientists have uncovered the first physical evidence that the ancient chill was due to a supervolcano eruption."