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ScottB's avatar

Ben Franklin, genius. If you included political impact, Laki might be the biggest, as it’s considered a contributor to the French Revolution, as crop failures increased an already miserable situation for French peasants.

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Mike Hoy's avatar

This is why Sulfur Dioxide aerosol spraying from high altitude aircraft is being considered to counteract global warming. But it will probably take a mass human die-off from a localized heat wave for any country to actually do it.

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