This is an artistic conception of Mt. Ararat erupting. Mt. Ararat (of Biblical fame) is a large, 16,854 ft. high, volcano located in eastern Turkey which last erupted in 1840. Large volcanic eruptions can significantly cool the Earth and, perhaps, trigger ice ages. In 1815, Indonesia's Mount Tambora, blasted 12 cubic miles of gases, dust and rock into the atmosphere, shrouding and chilling parts of the planet for many months, contributing to crop failure and famine in North America and epidemics in Europe. Climate experts believe that Tambora was partly responsible for the unseasonable chill that afflicted much of the Northern Hemisphere in 1816, known as the "year without a summer".
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