Posted on 03/28/2014 12:43:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Even a relatively small regional nuclear war could trigger global cooling, damage the ozone layer and cause droughts for more than a decade, researchers say.
These findings should further spur the elimination of the more than 17,000 nuclear weapons that exist today, scientists added.
During the Cold War, a nuclear exchange between superpowers was feared for years. One potential consequence of such a global nuclear war was "nuclear winter," wherein nuclear explosions sparked huge fires whose smoke, dust and ash blotted out the sun, resulting in a "twilight at noon" for weeks. Much of humanity might eventually die from the resulting crop failures and starvation.
Today, with the United States the only standing superpower, nuclear winter might seem a distant threat. Still, nuclear war remains a very real threat; for instance, between developing-world nuclear powers such as India and Pakistan.
To see what effects such a regional nuclear conflict might have on climate, scientists modeled a war between India and Pakistan involving 100 Hiroshima-level bombs, each packing the equivalent of 15,000 tons of TNT — just a small fraction of the world's current nuclear arsenal. They simulated interactions within and between the atmosphere, ocean, land and sea ice components of the Earth's climate system.
Scientists found the effects of such a war could be catastrophic.
"Most people would be surprised to know that even a very small regional nuclear war on the other side of the planet could disrupt global climate for at least a decade and wipe out the ozone layer for a decade," study lead author Michael Mills, an atmospheric scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, told Live Science...
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An entire planet based on, "these findings"
I'VE found something ...
In the beginning was the Word ...
Beautiful thought; wonderfully stated.
The good news is that we now have a quick an simple method for stopping man made global warming.
Flat out lie. Based on false assumptions. They assume that every nuclear blast results in a firestorm like Hiroshima which was almost entirely wood built and had not had rain in weeks. Nagasaki had no firestorm.
Carl Sagan lied about nuclear winter. That worked so well Carl Sagan and friends made up data for global warming. It is all a lie to promote their agenda.
“small. 100 nukes. don’t sound small.”
“Mr. President, I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed. “
Scientists with an agenda? I find that hard to believe.
I’m formulating a good strategy here: Keep driving those SUVs, and drop a couple of nukes on Iran, now and then.
This revival of the “nuclear winter” meme started right back to Zero, who insisted that the Euro leaders “play” some inane nuclear war game. He wanted to underscore the fact that he won’t lift a finger to help our allies, that they’re on their own.
Not only does the meme fit with the SDS unilateral disarmament / surrendermonkey BS, it also is part and parcel of the global warming hoax. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Dear 2ID,
tsk, tsk, now you are going to have the globull warming folks demanding that a nuke be set off just to stop the warming of the earth.
;-) G-F
I saw a listing on Fox News this week that had the total of US and Russian nukes at about 4,000. Using the 17,000 figure, that means there are 3 times the number of nukes in the world’s other nuke arsenals than are in the combined US & Russian. That is very scary, and I’m not being sarcastic. But the 17,000 may be a very old number, especially when I read about folks who complain about there being a half-million GIs on several hundred baases in Germany. All of those troops and bases have come home or been closed in the last 20 years.
...the LSM airs more crap in a single day...
Nuclear war is festive, fun, and educational.
Sounds like it’s the cure for “Global Warming.”
So could a big ol’ volcanic eruption; it’s happened several times in recorded history.
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