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How Mount Pinatubo Cooled the Entire Planet in 1991

In June of nineteen ninety-one, a mountain in the Philippines that had been silent for six hundred years blew itself apart in the second-largest eruption of the entire twentieth century. It was Mount Pinatubo. For weeks, scientists had watched it stir, and they made a desperate gamble.

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