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Mount Pinatubo

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-017853

A volcano in the Philippine Islands that erupted in 1991. The eruption of Mount Pinatubo ejected enough particulate and sulfate aerosol matter into the atmosphere to block some of the incoming solar radiation from reaching Earth's atmosphere. This effectively cooled the planet from 1992 to 1994, masking the warming that had been occurring for most of the 1980s and 1990s.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-017853
FieldEnvironment
SubjectClimate change
ReferencesGlossary of Climate Change Terms
Record as JSON 
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  "term": "Mount Pinatubo",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "A volcano in the Philippine Islands that erupted in 1991. The eruption of Mount Pinatubo ejected enough particulate and sulfate aerosol matter into the atmosphere to block some of the incoming solar radiation from reaching Earth's atmosphere. This effectively cooled the planet from 1992 to 1994, masking the warming that had been occurring for most of the 1980s and 1990s.",
  "subject": "Climate change",
  "references": [
    "Glossary of Climate Change Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/mount-pinatubo/"
}

Record 17,853 of 30,736 in Environment terminology (MLC-0121). Request the full dataset.