Smoke bomb: The other climate culprits - environment - 19 February 2010 - New Scientist

Smoke bomb: The other climate culprits - environment - 19 February 2010 - New Scientist: "N JUNE 1783, lava and gases began pouring from the Laki fissure in Iceland in one of the biggest and most devastating eruptions in history. Poisonous gases and starvation killed a quarter of Iceland's population. The effects of the eight-month-long eruption were felt further afield, too. In the rest of Europe, a scorching summer of strange fogs was followed by a series of devastating winters. In North America, the winter of 1784 was so cold the Mississippi froze at New Orleans."