Volcanoes and Climate

The 200th anniversary of the Tambora eruption led to a whole series of articles, visualizations, etc. on the connections between volcanic eruptions and climate change, for example After Tambora (The Economist).

There may be some weird 'motivated reasoning' here: learning about these catastrophic natural events and processes that are out of our control probably makes us feel less responsible for the consequences of our cumulative actions that we do have full control over.

http://www.economist.com/