<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 11:18 PM Keith Henson <<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>If humanity was facing this problem today what would we do?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"></span><font size="4">The 1815 Tambora eruption in Indonesia was the largest since humans first invented writing, it was about 150 times as powerful as the 1980 <span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mount</font></span> St<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span> Helens eruption. Tambora Killed at least 71,000 people directly and probably millions more in the "Year Without A S<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">u</span>mmer" that immediately followed it<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>and in <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">the </span>decade after that which was the coldest since the end if the Ice Age. </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">The Toba eruption 74,000 years ago (also in Indonesia) was at least 100 times as powerful as Tambora, so something like that today would create worldwide political instability and lots of death.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-size:16px"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif">John</font></span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> K Clark</span></span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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