>> >You mean agriculture is vulnerable to the effects of large scale   
   >> >volcanic activity. This has never been a secret.   
   The example at hand did not occur in a short time period but over a long   
   time and gradually.  That in itself excludes the proposed effect being   
   involved   
      
   >> A short time effect, climate change is a very long term effect.  The   
   >> current cycle is being affected by human activities starting some 8 k years   
   >> ago.   
   >   
   >The glacial/interglacial cycle is on the order of 100,000 years, if that's   
   >what you mean.   
      
   Yes, so we have at least 7 examples by which to compare the current one,   
   which is when the example happened.   
      
   All of this is confirmed in ice core studies going back 700 k years with   
   >> yearly recording of the climate.   
   >   
   >You think 0.7 million years ago is a long time?   
      
   As compared to what?  It is time enough to study the cycles involve and   
   test the proposed effect, it don't work out but is in fact refuted.   
      
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