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Scientific Correspondence

Nature 314, 136 (14 March 1985) | doi:10.1038/314136b0

Climatic effects of volcanic eruptions

KEVIN BURKE & PETER FRANCIS

SIR - Major volcanic eruptions in the future will cause, as they have in the past, significant short-term climatic changes, and these changes may have severe social consequences1"5. Recent discussions of the climatic effects of volcanic eruptions have emphasized their importance as analogues of the consequences of nuclear war1'2.