Mount Toba eruption doesn't seem like it could nearly kill our species

The Mount Toba eruption approximately 74,000 years ago did not produce the severe global cooling effects that some scientists had previously theorized, according to research examining climate records from that period. Studies of ice cores and atmospheric data suggest the eruption's climate impact was more limited than earlier models predicted. The eruption remains one of the largest known volcanic events in human history, but its effects on human populations appear less catastrophic than theories proposing near-extinction scenarios.

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