Problem: Which of the following statements concerning the impact of large historic volcanic eruptions is FALSE?
Group of answer choices
- Krakatau, the eruption that apparently ended western cattle drives, was the first time that the risks of pyroclastic flows were widely recognized.
- The stratosphere is lower at high latitudes, which made it easier for Laki (an Icelandic eruption in 1783) to affect the northern hemisphere.
- Although Tambora changed climate across the Earth to alter history, no one at the time connected those impacts to the volcanic eruption.
- Tambora (1815) not only indirectly altered European art and literature, but indirectly caused cholera to become a pandemic human disease.
- The Laki eruption (an Icelandic eruption in 1783) was the first time anyone proposed that volcanism could affect regional climate.