> Actually, the end of the last Ice Age was punctuated by the length of
> the Kamchatka Peninsula being in relatively continuous volcanic activity for
> 500-1000 years, together with fairly constant activity along the length of
> the Aleutian Islands. Global temperatures peaked near the end of the
> Holocene and had been declining ever since until the middle of the 19th
> century. We go through this every 100,000 to 110,000 years in sync with the
> ellitic nature of the Earth's orbit.
I just asked my friend here at work, who used to work for NASA for ten
years. He says that the ISS detectors do get particles from
earth-based volcanic eruptions. Interesting. Here I was being corny...
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