New England’s 1816 ‘Mackerel Year’ and climate change today

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The volcanic eruption cloud of Grímsvötn volcano,South-East Iceland, apparent on the very edge of NASA’s GOES-13 imagery. Photo source: NASA/CIMSS

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Aquatic ecologists, climate scientists and environmental historians in New England recount their many-layered, multidisciplinary investigation into the catastrophic effects of the 1815 eruption of the Indonesian volcano Tambora on coastal fish and commercial fisheries in the Gulf of Maine. They say the tale may carry lessons for intertwined human-natural systems facing climate change around the world today…

Read Full Article, Science Daily (01-19-2017)

Alliance between the Arctic and Tropics (02-2011)
No wonder “you melt, we sink” is the nightmare that unites 43 small developing island nations of the world, and Arctic organizations in their fight against climate change through a coalition called called Many Strong Voices.
Like the Arctic, small island nations account for a tiny percentage of world energy consumption and produce low levels of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions. Yet they’re already threatened by the same kind of unpredictable weather, storms and erosion due to the changing climate that has some Alaskan villages relocating inland…

Human Activities Produce More Carbon Dioxide Emissions Than Do Volcanoes; USGS (06-15-2011)

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