The Tambora Revolution: The 1815 Eruption that Changed the World
Room 100, Lovejoy Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEGillen D’Arcy Wood, professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, asks what happens when the world’s climate reaches a sudden tipping point. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the so-called “year without a summer.” The fallout from the massive 1816 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia caused a global climate emergency with […]