Carbon emissions ACCELERATED climate change. Climate change is natural. It's the ACCELERATED change that is the problem. Not enough time for species to adjust.
I imagine many millions of large mammals and birds and insects also died.
Apparently Frankenstein and Dracula were both born that 'summer' at one of Byron's gatherings. Something to pass the time indoors.
That’s very far fetched.
> which is believed
By whom? The little ice age peaked in the 1600s.
> The eruption may have helped trigger the Little Ice Age, a centuries-long cold period during the last thousand years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
> In a 2012 paper, Miller et al. link the Little Ice Age to an "unusual 50-year-long episode with four large sulfur-rich explosive eruptions, each with global sulfate loading >60 Tg" and notes that "large changes in solar irradiance are not required."[8]
https://globalnews.ca/news/4924534/little-ice-age-death-55-m...
> The elimination of nearly 55 million, or 90 per cent, of Indigenous people in the Americas during European colonization led to global climate change and the “Little Ice Age” of the 17th century, a recent study finds.
In fairness, the Samalas Eruption did not directly lead to Ghengis Khan or Black Death. But during the Little Ice Age - the populations reduced by ~90%.
Specifically in the Americas, not the whole world. Also I don’t see how climate change was the cause.
European population had already recovered to its pre black death peak by the 1400s and had significantly surpassed it by 1500 (78 vs 90 million).
Your argument is similar to “Everyone would have died anyway; this thermonuclear winter just sped it up. Totally not humanity’s fault we live in a bunker.”