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In New England, 1816 was called the Year Without a Summer. Crops failed throughout America and, in Western Europe, it was even worse, with food riots and armed groups raiding bakeries and grain markets. All this turmoil followed a catastrophic volcanic eruption–a year earlier on the other side of the world–the eruption of Tambora, a blast heard almost a thousand miles away.
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When the Planet Rages: Natural Disasters, Global Warming and the Future of the Earth