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That's a pretty awful hot take.

Unless this is some terribly poor trolling, in which case I've taken your bait...

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Volcanic winter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter

The Year Without Summer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

Not sure what a hot take is. It was a a genuine question - volcanic eruptions have well documented climatic effects.

It's kind of a compliment. "Hot take" is becoming common parlance, but a hot take as defined by Blind Boy Boathouse would be a connection you notice between two seemingly unrelated things, and then dive into to arrive at a smashing observation about, where you link those things by obsessively researching the connections between them, to reveal a hot take on events that no one has quite heard of, or had the same take on before.

Check out this, maybe the great hot take of all time. https://play.acast.com/s/blindboy/pooanon

It's kind of a compliment

I'm not so sure it is a compliment.

I've heard advertisements on the radio recently for financial and sports programs and web sites where they promise "No hot takes — only real information."

Yeah, I think "hot take" [1] is the analytic analogue to expressions like "by the seat of the pants," [2] meaning something like: A rushed, likely emotional, reaction to something with no or minimal follow-up research or analysis.

  1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_take
  2: https://writingexplained.org/idiom-dictionary/fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants

Not precisely. What makes a "take" hot is its provocative or controversial nature. It's not quite flamebait -- that implies more of a deliberate attempt to sow discord -- but it's along the same lines.

Eh, that's what I was thinking too (except it's underwater). One good belch like this from Yellowstone and we'd be back in an ice age.

Aren't we still sort of in an ice age, in relative geologic terms?

Okay, yes we are, with the popular usage of ice age referring to the last period when glaciers were much more dominant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation

A definition of an ice age that I read somewhere is when there are permanent ice sheets at the poles.

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