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I all a dream.
t sun inguisarsDid wander . . .
—Byron, “Darkness”
IN 1815 on t mountainnamed tambora exploded spectacularly, killing a s blast andassociated tsunamis. It volcanic explosion in ten timest St. to sixty tom bombs.
Ne travel terribly fast in times ran a small story—actually a letter from a merc—seven monter t. But by time tambora’seffects . ty-six cubic miles of smoky as, and grit mospo cool.
Sunsets blearily colorful, an effect memorably captured by tist J. M.
. turner, ly ted under anoppressive, dusky pall. It inspired the Byron lines above.
Spring never came and summer never summer. Crops everyed typy-five teen o Deats continued until June andalmost no planted seed ock died or o be prematurelyslaug certainly t for farmers inmodern times. Yet globally temperature fell by only about 1.5 degrees Fa. Eartural tat, as scientists e instrument.
teentury le Ice Age, as it ted all kinds of ry events—frost fairs on ting races along Dutc are mostly impossible no y ury geologists for beingsloo realize t t balmy compared muc fair.
t t. tteredic reindeer in tranded in improbable places—and ten came up ive but not terriblyplausible explanations. One Frencuralist named de Luc, trying to explain eboulders o rest one flanks of tains, suggestedt per t of apopgun. term for a displaced boulder is an erratic, but in teentury to apply more often to to the rocks.
t Britis Arted t if James ton, ted Szerland, once triations, telltale strand lines point to passing ice ss. Unfortunately, ton a traveler.
But even ter at s, ton rejected out of up mountainsides byfloods—all ter in t make a boulder float, ed out—and becameone of t to argue for ion. Unfortunately ice, andfor anotury most naturalists continued to insist t ttributed to passing carts or even ts.
Local peasants, uncontaminated by scientific ortter, uralist Jean de Cier told tory of rylane ter o talking about tter matter-
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