A volcanic eruption 100 times the power of the combined Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs has already struck Earth.
It was in 1816, in Indonesia: the Tambora volcano then erupted.
Cathy Clerbaux, atmospheric and climate physicist at the CNRS, explains this event: “It's called a stratovolcano.
It is a volcano that sends sulfur dioxide and ash directly high into the atmosphere.
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The consequences of this volcano are enormous and affect the whole world.
Millions of people are dying, the sun's rays are blocked, the climate is disrupted, and so are crops.
Historians have been able to make links between this phenomenon and various events: the price of cereals which increases, books which describe the climatic atmosphere, paintings which illustrate the mist thousands of kilometers from the volcano… Cathy Clerbaux deciphers this unprecedented event in the video of our partner Brut.
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