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Climate could suffer in volcanic winter

Published on
February 4, 2000
Last updated
May 27, 2015

* Supervolcanoes pose a natural threat to climate, dwarfing that of man-made effects, MPs were warned this week. A "volcanic winter" caused by a major eruption could upset the climate for years, members of the Geological Society told the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee.

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