His case does not rest on the impact hypothesis: what is load-bearing is that the Younger Dryas happened at all, whatever triggered it.

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• The Younger Dryas was triggered not by one impact but by hundreds of airbursts from a fragmenting comet whose debris stream the Earth still crosses twice a year. GHGraham Hancock16 Oct 2024similar wording
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