HOME | DD

Description

The blood red sun crept over the horizon.
Filling them all with dread.

It wasn’t really the colour.
They had seen red suns before

The problem was... the rest..

———————————————————————————————————————————

In the time following the eruption of Tambora, there was a layer of aerosol in the atmosphere so thick, contemporary witnesses describe the rising sun as “so dark one could see sunspots with the naked eye.”

Naturally these aerosol layers ...
Along with assorted ash...
would keep out sunlight.

That was largely why the climate changed in the following year.

But at sunrise the effect seem to have been particularly visual.

This scared them.
This dark spotted sun.

Lots of them had never even heard of sunspots at this point.
Even though the concept of sunspots were known to scientists, who would observe them trough camera obscura.

Many, both scientists and others, would ascribe the cold to these spots.
Which is understandable.
They didn't know that a volcano could change the climate as it did.

And these spots were visible.

Description

The blood red sun crept over the horizon.
Filling them all with dread.

It wasn’t really the colour.
They had seen red suns before

The problem was... the rest..

———————————————————————————————————————————

In the time following the eruption of Tambora, there was a layer of aerosol in the atmosphere so thick, contemporary witnesses describe the rising sun as “so dark one could see sunspots with the naked eye.”

Naturally these aerosol layers ...
Along with assorted ash...
would keep out sunlight.

That was largely why the climate changed in the following year.

But at sunrise the effect seem to have been particularly visual.

This scared them.
This dark spotted sun.

Lots of them had never even heard of sunspots at this point.
Even though the concept of sunspots were known to scientists, who would observe them trough camera obscura.

Many, both scientists and others, would ascribe the cold to these spots.
Which is understandable.
They didn't know that a volcano could change the climate as it did.

And these spots were visible.