Here's one more interesting 'Little Ice Age' link that helps underline the power of natural occurrences and mentions the 1815 eruption of the Tambora volcano in Indonesia as the indirect cause for Mary Shelley having written "Frankenstein".
"Most prominent was the 1815 eruption of Tambora in Indonesia. It pumped into the atmosphere vast amounts of ash -- ten times that of Krakatoa, another famous Indonesian volcano. The following year has been called the "Year Without a Summer." In June and July of 1816, New England and northern Europe suffered frost and even snow."
http://www.geology.um.maine.edu/ges121/lectures/11-little-ice-age/little-ice-age.html John Willkie wrote:
By the way, I know a little about the La Jolla work; I applied for and interviewed for an IT-like job at the company that a Scripps team formed to implement the world's largest network of sea-based temperature reporting devices. They had about 400 in 1991, IIRC ... The only alternative was ship-based itinerant readings. Sometimes, I know the answers to questions that I ask.
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