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The year of darkness.
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- Author(s): Barras, Colin
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New Scientist. 1/18/2014, Vol. 221 Issue 2952, p34-38. 5p.
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The article discusses events of the year AD 536 in which global temperatures dropped and the sun dimmed. Topics include a tree-ring study by Michael Baillie of Queen's University Belfast in Ireland, that suggests the global weather conditions were the result of a comet passing or colliding with planet Earth, recollections of Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea, the climatic impact of volcanic eruptions, and a plague that killed thousands in Byzantine Emperor Justinian I's army.
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