Posted on 12/11/2006 12:03:29 PM PST by TheTruthAintPretty
SAN FRANCISCO—A small-scale, regional nuclear war could disrupt the global climate for a decade or more, with environmental effects that could be devastating for everyone on Earth, researchers have concluded.
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The lingering effects could re-shape the environment in ways never conceived. In terms of climate, a nuclear blast could plunge temperatures across large swaths of the globe. "It would be the largest climate change in recorded human history," Alan Robock, associate director of the Center for Environmental Prediction at Rutgers' Cook College and another member of the research team.
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They discovered the smoke emissions would plunge temperatures by about 2 degrees Fahrenheit (1.25 degrees Celsius) over large areas of North America and Eurasia—areas far removed from the countries involved in the conflict.
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So, we can cure global warming AND (quickly, cheaply) rid the world from a billion followers of the false prophet? What is the downside?
Unless the war was with the SF city council......
At least they are talking about the only real threat to human life on the planet, not the exhaust from an internal combustion engine.
By most accounts this is true. Look at the impact of Chernobyl.
"Setting off a Hiroshima-size weapon could cause as many direct fatalities as all of World War II."
OK. So why didn't that happen last time?
Do these people think that EVERONE is stupid but them?
This is bull. However, a fairly small number of nukes detonated in any country in the wrong places would pretty well devastate the economy of that country for many years.
The internal combustion engine is so yesterday.
Now it's cattle (and the methane gas they produce).
WWII had total casualties of over 25 million. There isn't a population center in the world dense enough to have that many people killed from a 20 kiloton bomb.
Well, the chances of a nuclear war being small are not too good, so maybe there's hope just yet.
/sarc
i like those guys
they've come up with a cure for global warming...
now, lets go to tehran for a weather report
" those clouds of billowing methane are sure to dissipate with the cold front approaching"
What were the global temperature effects of Chernobyl? Why are global tempertature effects measured in Fahrenheit? Because the numbers are bigger?
"They discovered the smoke emissions would plunge temperatures by about 2 degrees Fahrenheit (1.25 degrees Celsius) over large areas of North America and Eurasia—areas far removed from the countries involved in the conflict."
This is almost precisely what the late Carl Sagan and other nuclear winter proponents said about the possibility of Kuwait's oil wells being set on fire (by non-nuclear means of course) in 1991. As we know, the wells were torched, no such catastrophe ensued, and the media responded with deafening silence. To the best of my knowledge, Carl was never once called out by the media on this outrageous prediction or asked to account for it.
These weasels are already bitching about Global Warming; if we really want to stop Global Warming, we could just have a small nuclear war with the next country to seriously piss us off. North Korea and Iran are on deck.
We'd stop Global Warming and stop the bad guys. Where's the downside ? (Well, except for being a Nork or an Iraniac)
What about all that testing we did a few decades ago? Was that not MORE than a small theater war?
I am not sure. I was thinking of the environmental impact. However, it's pretty well documented what the effects of several small nuclear bombs would be.
Let's have a SMALL nuclear war just to show them they are wrong like in global warming ( Cow farts )
What is the downside?Are you trying to say you don't think a "small" nuclear war would have worldwide effects on our climate? There have been volcanic eruptions that have affected out climate for years. I'll bet the 50 nukes between India and Pakistan put orders of magnitude more junk in the atmosphere.
Nuclear Winter returns!!!
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