> The energy released was more than that of a billion Hiroshima bombs > a fiery plume, reached halfway to the moon > fires consumed about seventy per cent of

> The energy released was more than that of a billion Hiroshima bombs > a fiery plume, reached halfway to the moon > fires consumed about seventy per cent of the world’s forests > tsunamis, acid rain > After the fires died down, Earth plunged into a period of cold, perhaps even a deep freeze An almost unimaginable scale of destruction. It's mind-blowing that life continued at all. I would love to know more about how life prevailed through this period, how anything made it through this extreme bottleneck.