Agreed. The article title and conclusions are totally misleading.
The vast majority of the extinctions can be directly traced to whatever happened 11,000 years ago.
This would be like blaming high deer mortality on the falling leaves in the fall and ignoring the guys out there who happen to have guns...
More “Publish or Perish”...
Even if it’s dreck...
These jerks tell us our very breathing causes global warming. There is no end to their nonsense, which is always written in “doublespeak.”
That would be around the end of the Younger Dryas, a nasty cold event that interrupted the warming from the bottom of the last glacial period.