Seen it All in a Small Town

[countertorque]

Overheard in the Medford, Oregon Comfort Inn at the complimentary breakfast:

Speaker 1: Well, the dark age was caused by a volcano.

Speaker 2: Yeah, and that lasted 2 entire years.

Speaker 3: What was that volcano in the Philippines?

Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, uh Mount Pinatubo?

Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's right.

Comments

[merastra]

Wow. Ok, I guess the 1991 eruption could be called a "dark age"... It's just not normally what I think of when I hear "dark age".

So how old were these people?

[izmirian]

Yeah, it's tricky to fit this data into any single piece of history that I know of. Krakatoa (Indonesia though, not Philippines) certainly had some large explosions that briefly caused cooling around large parts of the world ... not related to the "dark age" ...

[mijven]

Well, I suppose it made things sorta dark, especially for those who saw lots of soot. And it was an anomaly against predicted climate models, used by many to prove global-warming-is-a-liberal-scare-tactic because ice ages happen naturally and all?