Climate-driven changes in Mediterranean grain trade mitigated famine but introduced the Black Death to medieval Europe - Communications Earth & Environment Post-volcanic climate downtown in southern Europe around 1345–1347 CE caused widespread famine, leading to Italian maritime republics importing grain from the Black Sea region and introducing fleas ca...

Clue to #ClimateChange from a scientific paper in the Nature regarding #TheBlackDeath

#VolcanicEruption and #SO2 being pumped into the #stratosphere, a VSSI, caused summer cooling in 1345–1347

Caused by #MountSamalas eruption in 1257

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

#MountSamalas 2.0 .. tried to tell them

Now prior to the one in the #GrandSolarMinimum, you had a big eruption from #MountSamalas in 1257 .. ish

They knew there was a big eruption but was not found for years until a French Scientist searched and eventually found it