Opinion of the Mount Toba supereruption

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> Opinion of the Mount Toba supereruption, which killed most life on earth and reduced the human population to a few thousand people

What do you guys think?

which killed most life on earth?

Really?

Maybe people first need to get their facts right.

It didn't even come close to killing most life on earth. In fact human civilisation was far more devastating for life on earth than a single eruption, how devastating it even was.

No-one has ever stated or argued that most life on earth was killed by the eruption. No-one has, it's just GMac who thinks he knows it all.

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Even for the human bottleneck theory more evidence is needed to proof that. It's still a theory, not a proven concept in science.

What did happen though is that it kickstarted an intense 10 year cooling and due to increasing albedo and advancing ice and glaciers and winters resulted after the effects of the volcanic winter faded away into a permanent cooling intensifying the ice age the world already was in. The thousand years following the eruption was a lot colder than the 1000 years preceding it.

While Sundaland - the land where it would have occured - which due to decreased sea surface levels would have allowed for a larger biomass than today was a refuge for animals who had to migrate due to the cold to warmer places.