SINGAPORE - When Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991, it spewed nearly 20 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide and ash so high into the atmosphere that it hung there for years, screening sunlight from reaching the Earth's surface.
As a result, the planet was about 0.5 deg C cooler until 1993.
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