Evidence indicates that the six mile diameter asteroid that smacked down on the Yucatan peninsula 65 million years ago did not cause any major extinctions, according to information released at a this week's American Geophysical meeting.
It appears that a period of massive volcanic eruptions in India about 300,000 years after the Yucatan impact did the dinosaurs in, as well as many other species.
This series of eruptions, lasting less than 10,000 years, put ten times more climate-changing emissions into the atmosphere than the asteroid impact.
Volcanoes are the greatest polluting mechanisms on this planet. Man's efforts pale in comparison, excluding the detonation of thousands of nuclear weapons.
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