The Volcano that Changed the World
Grant Fink
The weather can change on the drop of a hat, or rather the eruption of a volcano. Mount Tambora erupted two hundred years ago in modern day Indonesia, but despite quickly becoming one of the most violent volcanic eruptions, it went unnoticed because of mysterious weather patterns. Could the reason behind this puzzling weather be linked with the eruption? Today, scientists have learned off of other volcanic eruptions that these two events are linked. When some of the present’s most violent volcanoes erupt, they usually kill a few people, and the rain is a little more acidic. When Tambora erupted, it killed tens of thousands within the first five days of it erupting. However, those deaths are just blips on the radar compared to what is about to happen. …show more content…
Yet it went unnoticed. But how did it go unnoticed? The weather. The weather changed dramatically because when a volcano erupts, it spews tons of ash and gas into the air. When this happens, a ‘haze’ of black gas and ash mix in with the rest of the stratosphere. It takes years for this ‘haze’ to dissipate. How does the ‘haze’ affect the atmosphere? It destroys it. Scientists have studied how the atmosphere in the radius of a recently erupted violent volcano, and the destruction can be similar to the theory of global warming.
Mount Tambora killed so many, but not mostly by burning them in rivers of lava. On the first day of the eruption, it killed twelve-thousand people instantly, mostly people living on the mountain because it was selfishly hiding tons of lava beneath it’s surface. But that was nothing compared to the fifth day. On the fifth day, it spewed giant towers of molten rock and gas into the air, polluting the area around it with rivers of lava moving two-hundred miles an hour, killing thousands, and that wasn’t the brunt of the
Grant Fink
The weather can change on the drop of a hat, or rather the eruption of a volcano. Mount Tambora erupted two hundred years ago in modern day Indonesia, but despite quickly becoming one of the most violent volcanic eruptions, it went unnoticed because of mysterious weather patterns. Could the reason behind this puzzling weather be linked with the eruption? Today, scientists have learned off of other volcanic eruptions that these two events are linked. When some of the present’s most violent volcanoes erupt, they usually kill a few people, and the rain is a little more acidic. When Tambora erupted, it killed tens of thousands within the first five days of it erupting. However, those deaths are just blips on the radar compared to what is about to happen. …show more content…
Yet it went unnoticed. But how did it go unnoticed? The weather. The weather changed dramatically because when a volcano erupts, it spews tons of ash and gas into the air. When this happens, a ‘haze’ of black gas and ash mix in with the rest of the stratosphere. It takes years for this ‘haze’ to dissipate. How does the ‘haze’ affect the atmosphere? It destroys it. Scientists have studied how the atmosphere in the radius of a recently erupted violent volcano, and the destruction can be similar to the theory of global warming.
Mount Tambora killed so many, but not mostly by burning them in rivers of lava. On the first day of the eruption, it killed twelve-thousand people instantly, mostly people living on the mountain because it was selfishly hiding tons of lava beneath it’s surface. But that was nothing compared to the fifth day. On the fifth day, it spewed giant towers of molten rock and gas into the air, polluting the area around it with rivers of lava moving two-hundred miles an hour, killing thousands, and that wasn’t the brunt of the