{"id":7368,"date":"2016-06-11T14:25:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T18:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7368"},"modified":"2016-06-11T14:25:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T18:25:28","slug":"200th-anniversary-of-the-year-without-a-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/06\/200th-anniversary-of-the-year-without-a-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"200th anniversary of &#8220;The Year without a Summer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Capital Weather Gang has posted a great story about the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1816, 200 years ago this summer. \u00a0The sulfuric acid emissions from this eruption helped contribute to some of the coldest temperatures we have seen in the Northern Hemisphere in modern times, due to the reflection of sunlight back to space by the tiny sulfuric acid droplets. \u00a0You can read all about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2015\/04\/24\/the-epic-volcano-eruption-that-led-to-the-year-without-a-summer\/?postshare=4481465623711523&amp;tid=ss_tw\">here<\/a>. \u00a0Only a few eruptions, mostly in the tropics, have had that much effect on the earth&#8217;s climate, usually lasting for a few years. \u00a0The last major eruption that had noticeable effects: Mount Pinatubo, which erupted in the Philippines in 1991.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2651\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2651\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/Caldera_Mt_Tambora_Sumbawa_Indonesia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2651\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/Caldera_Mt_Tambora_Sumbawa_Indonesia-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Jialiang Gao, Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/Caldera_Mt_Tambora_Sumbawa_Indonesia-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/Caldera_Mt_Tambora_Sumbawa_Indonesia-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/Caldera_Mt_Tambora_Sumbawa_Indonesia.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Jialiang Gao, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Capital Weather Gang has posted a great story about the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1816, 200 years ago this summer. \u00a0The sulfuric acid emissions from this eruption helped contribute to some of the coldest temperatures we have seen in the Northern Hemisphere in modern times, due to the reflection of sunlight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7369,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions\/7369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}