So apparently were all doomed

[Gregoshi]

Before we wish each other a pleasant weekend; what about the meteor, Greg?

Sorry DJ, ZFN put so many disasters in the OP, I missed the meteor.

Viking corrected me on the super volcano results. The volcano will compound the nuclear winter it seems. The meteor will further enhance this by throwing more material into the atmosphere. However, while darkening the sun, this will produce a triple layer of insulation which should hold in what heat the Earth already has. Add to this the effects of heat from the nukes and we shouldn't have to worry about freezing during several years of sun block. Now, as Viking mentioned, the reduced sunlight certainly won't help farming, but the extra rich volcanic material that will be settling to the ground should provide a reduced-light-cancelling boost to crop growth.

Now, if the meteor hits the ocean, a likely case, then we'll have lots of water vapor in the atmosphere, which normally would result in a greenhouse situation. What it may do, in fact, is cleanse the volcanic ash from the atmosphere via rain - which also takes the moisture/cloud cover from the atmosphere as well. Thus the cold inducing ash and the greenhouse inducing water vapor cancel each other and that the same time deposit the ash on our farm fields. The rich volcanic soil coupled with the bountiful rainfall should yield bumper crops, thus ending hunger planet wide.

Seems to me such a chain reaction of disasters could be the best thing that ever happened to Earth.