Between April 5–15, 1815, in the area Lesser Sunda Islands,
Dutch East Indies mount Tambora erupted, throwing ash up in the air, which with
combination of low solar activity caused a volcanic winter and dropped temperatures by 0.4 to 0.7 °C . Parts of Russian Empire such as Ukraine and Volga region were spared and
actually had a temperature increase.
Lack of summer in 1816
created a wide food shortage in the Northern Hemisphere. In some part of Europe there were food riots.
US and Canada had lakes frozen in July.
The only food producing regions in Europe were Ukraine,
Volga region – big grain production areas, Balkans and Turkey. The price of
grain went up 10 times
I am not a meteorologist. In my life time I saw several big
eruptions happened in Polynesia (one of them forced US to close Clark Air force
base in Philippines) I do not know, if there can be another eruption like in
1815 soon, but all I can say, that there is something in the region of South
Easter Ukraine and other places (see the map), that with rotation of the Earth
keeps enough sunshine to produce crops, and other places cannot do that. This
makes those areas strategic for countries to control food supply.
Food – commodity that you cannot live without. Control food
supply – control people and countries. Ukraine, specifically Central planes and
South East of Ukraine, has one of the most fertile soils on Earth.
By importance to food production, the land there can be
compared to California’s Central Valley and Mississippi Valley.
Some of the wars in the future will be for food and water.
Source here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
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