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Using the evidence from Laki, Courtillot now built a model of how the Siberian Traps might have destroyed the world.
利用拉基的證據，Courtillot建立了一個模型解釋西伯利亞地盾如何摧毀整個世界。
First, there would have been eruptions sending thousands of tons of dust and ashes into the sky.
首先火山噴發將數千噸的塵埃送上天空.
Slowly the sun would have been blocked out and temperatures would have fallen.
陽光漸漸被阻擋，氣溫不斷下降。
First we'll enter a winter, a volcanic winter,
首先造成全球性的冬天：火山冬天，
the dust and the sulphur will cool the atmosphere after each eruption for years or tens of years.
每次噴發產生的塵埃和硫磺都會使大氣降溫，它會持續幾年甚至幾十年。
It would have been like a nuclear winter lasting decades.
這類似于核冬天，延續數十年之久。
But that would have been just the beginning.
但這僅僅只是開始。
As the sky's cleared, vast quantities of gas given off by the burning lava
隨著天空逐漸晴朗，熔巖揮發出的大量氣體，
would have slowly wrapped the earth in a blanket of carbon dioxide, an extremely powerful greenhouse gas.
慢慢包圍了整個地球，形成一個二氧化碳罩，二氧化碳是相當強大的溫室氣體。
Gradually, over thousands of years there would have been massive global warming.
漸漸地，幾千年后地球上又出現了全球大變暖的現象。
The carbon dioxide will lead to a greenhouse effect and the cold will be replaced by unusual hot time.
二氧化碳會造成溫室效應，嚴寒再次被高溫所取代。
So you get the double hit, you're cold for a while and then hot for a longer time.
所以地球遭受了雙重打擊，先是一陣嚴寒，然后再是長期的炎熱。
So that altogether after a million years, the earth would be different.
這些因素共同作用的100萬年后，地球肯定已是面目全非。
The climate would be different and a mass extinction would have happened.
氣候劇變，這勢必會造成生物大滅絕。
