Pinatubo
Americannoun
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When Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991, for instance, global temperatures dropped by nearly one degree Celsius for several years.
From Science Daily • Oct. 21, 2025
An example of this is the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo that cooled the planet down by up to 0.5C for two years.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2025
Nature does this already: After Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted in 1991, sending 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide spewing into the atmosphere, global temperatures fell by about 1 degree Fahrenheit the following year.
From Washington Post • Jan. 9, 2023
“But I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the same order of magnitude” as Pinatubo, he said, just in the opposite direction.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2022
All of a sudden, it reminded him of the crater lake in the Philippines called Pinatubo, which was created after the 1991 eruption of the Mount Pinatubo volcano.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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