Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World

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When Indonesia s Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years The volcano s massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for than three years Communities worldwide endured famine, disease, and civil unrest on a catastrophic scale.Here, Gillen D Arcy Wood traces Tambora s global and historical reach how the volcano s three year climate change regime initiated the first worldwide cholera pandemic, expanded opium markets in China, and plunged the United States into its first economic depression Bringing the history of this planetary emergency to life, Tambora sheds light on the fragile interdependence of climate and human societies to offer a cautionary tale about the potential tragic impacts of drastic climate change in our own century. Free Download [ Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World ] Author [ Gillen D'Arcy Wood ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This is quite the best book I ve read all year In Tambora The Eruption That Changed the World, Gillen D Arcy Wood follows the model, probably unknowingly, of Geoffrey Parker s Global Crisis Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century, albeit on a somewhat different scale Parker wrote about the Little Ice Age, which ran for the better part of a century, and here Wood describes the Tambora eruption of 1815 and the ensuing climate disasters that followed for the next three or four This is quite the best book I ve read all year In Tambora The Eruption That Changed the World, Gillen D Arcy Wood follows the model, probably unknowingly, of Geoffrey Parker s Global Crisis Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century, albeit on a somewhat different scale Parker wrote about the Little Ice Age, which ran for the better part of a century, and here Wood describes the Tambora...UPDATE 1 For a supposedly scientific and historical work, there is an awful lot of tut tutting at people 200 years ago for not acting on knowledge we didn t get till a couple decades ago Also, a lot of huffing about the need for class warfare, and a surprising refusal to acknowledge the fact that climate change has been plateaued for the last 20 years I m starting to think this book isn t about history or science.UPDATE 2 Okay, i can do without ...The great volcanic eruption at Tambora in 1815 made Vesuvius look like a volcanic hiccup it was many times stronger than the destructive Krakatoa It was one of the most powerful volcanoes of which we have a record This book looks at the many effects of this catastrophe from economic to human misery to cultural effects throughout the world.From famine and immiseration in Ireland to depression in the United States including Thomas Jefferson being pushed further and further into debt as crops The great volcanic eruption at Tambora in 1815 made Vesuvius look like a volcanic hiccup it was many times stronger than the destructive Krakatoa It was one of the most powerful volcanoes of which we have a record This book looks at the many effects of this catastrophe from economic to human misery to cultural effects throughout the world.From famine and immiseration in Ireland to depression in the United States including Thomas Jefferson being pushed further and further into debt as crops failed and loans had to ...This text covers the volcanic explosion of mt Tambora in late spring of 1815 and its impact on global climate that lasted into the 1820s The only culture at the time that had long term climate records was China whose weather records went back over a thousand years, which allowed the impact of this event to be compared with historic norms.Tambora left a caldera of a similar size as the one created when Oregon s Mt Mazama, known as Crater Lake volcanic eruption impacted the world 7,700 years This text covers the volcanic explosion of mt Tambora in late spring of 1815 and its impact on global climate that lasted into the 1820s The only culture at the time that had long term climate records was China whose weather records went back over a thousand years, which allowed the impact of this event to be compared with historic norms.Tambora left a calder...Whether governments and the public want to deny or ignore, at their peril, the concept of global warming, hopefully there is no one who will deny the enormous power, force and ever present possibility of nature rendering all civilization its hostage wherever it feels such desire Hurricane Katrina, the volcanos of Iceland, the tsunamis in Japan all give civilization a gentle touch on the shoulder to remind us that no planning, no fortification, no dikes and no one can defy nature Further, Whether governments and the public want to deny or ignore, at their peril, the concept of global warming, hopefully there is no one who will deny the enormous power, force and ever present possibility of nature rendering all civilization its hostage wherever it feels such desire Hurricane Katrina, the volcanos of Iceland, the tsunamis in Japan all give civilization a gentle touch on the shoulder to remind us that no planning, no fortification, no dikes and no one can defy nature Further, unlike the Human species who mostly thinks in time frames of hours, days, years, and perhaps decades, nature works in spans of hundreds of thousands of years, milli...Really an excellent book chronicling the worldwide impacts of the Mt Tambora volcanic eruption From south China to India, Ireland,the Swiss alps and North America the eruption of Tambora created weather havoc worldwide and its impacts in Europe inspired a young Mary Shelley to conjure up her iconic Frankenstein monster after bearing witness to the deprivations of her European brethren suffering from a famine and droughts in its eruptive wake Over all author Gillen D arcy Wood does meticulous Really an excellent book chronicling the worldwide impacts of the Mt Tambora volcanic eruption From south China to India, Ireland,the Swiss alps and North America the eruption of Tambora created weather havoc worldwide and its impacts in Europe inspired a young Mary Shelley to conjure up her iconic Frankenstein monster after bearing witness to the deprivations of her European brethren suffering from a famine and droughts in its eruptive wake Over all author Gillen D arcy Wood does meticulous research on the event spanning the period from 1815 1818 with longer terms impacts felt way beyond those years In the process he shows how this event shaped the world for the b...Tambora The Eruption that Changed the World is an intensely researched and very interesting study of the effects of the volcanic eruption that took place on the island of Sumbawa in the Dutch East Indies in April of 1815 It stands as the largest eruption in the past 10,000 years and caused global climate changes over the next three years This book traces those changes and adds somethat the author connects to Tambora s influence on local climates His arguments, for the most part, are Tambora The Eruption that Changed the World is an intensely researched and very interesting study of the effects of the volcanic eruption that took place on the island of Sumbawa in the Dutch East Indies in April of 1815 It stands as the largest eruption in the past 10,000 years and caused global climate changes over the next three years This book traces those changes and adds somethat the author connects to Tambo...A thoughtful look at the volcano eruption that lead to the year without a summer the author takes the reader around the world to chart the impact of Tamora s eruption on weather and food production.A very interesting book on an eruption from 200 years ago that probably had serious and long lasting impact on the world s climate and subsequent political and societal changes However, the author is bit too in love with his own voice and repute His florid descriptions betray his literary background and sometimes he undermines his own conclusions and arguments with almost hilariously overblown language As he repeatedly reminds us, he is thus far the only writer to provide a full and thorough A very interesting book on an eruption from 200 years ago that probably had serious and long lasting impact on the world s climate and subsequent political and societal changes However, the author is bit too in love with his own voice and repute His florid descriptions betray his literary background and sometimes he undermines his own conclusions and arguments with almost hilariously overblown language As he repeatedly reminds us, he is thus far the only writer to provide a full and thorough analysis of Tambora s effects in a book on a worldwide stage There are, however, numerous articles available online and in print...Absolutely fascinating book about the effects of the Tambora eruption in 1815 The incredible amount of ash released into the atmosphere in April 1815 caused extensive weather anomalies around the world for three years In many parts of the world 1816 was the year without a summer The eruption also contributed to the first major global cholera outbreak And most surprising was how much literary authors at the time wrote about the effects of Tambora without realizing it Mary Shelly sAbsolutely fascinating book about the effects of the Tambora eruption in 1815 The incredible amount of ash released into the atmosphere in April 1815 caused extensive weather anomalies around the world for three years In many parts of the world 1816 was the year without a summer The eruption also contributed to the first major global cholera outbreak And most surprising was how much liter...

Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World
  • English
  • 23 November 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 293 pages
  • 0691150540
  • Gillen D'Arcy Wood
  • Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World