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To: Enchante

Even the eruptions at Yellowstone pale in comparison with Toba.

Two hundred billion tons of sulphur dioxide alone.

Worldwide, the temperature plummeted 5-10 degrees Fahrenheit, spawning a mini ice age that lasted a thousand years.

Except for the 2-5 thousand humans who survived, we wouldn’t be here.


26 posted on 05/31/2008 11:05:32 PM PDT by djf
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To: djf
Except for the 2-5 thousand humans who survived, we wouldn’t be here.

And they made it only because they were airlifted out by a fleet of UFO's piloted by Greys.

32 posted on 06/01/2008 8:24:56 AM PDT by ninonitti
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I’ve seen those reports, and I’ve tried to reconcile them with temperature data from Greenland ice cores. Although there is a drop in temperature at the point of increased sulfur deposits from Toba, the temp graph of the last ice age looks very similar to the temp graph of the one just before that. Perhaps the drop in temperature and rebound to the “normal” rate of change was so rapid that it doesn’t show up well in the ice cores. A volcanic winter lasting a few centuries, or even just a few decades, might have been long enough to create the human bottleneck, but not long enough to have altered the general climate trend nor have shown up in the core samples.


41 posted on 06/02/2008 10:45:03 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares.")
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