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War between India and Pakistan 'could stop global warming' says NASA
28 February 2019 | https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/we...ear-war-india-pakistan-global-warming-climate
ESCALATING TENSIONS between India and Pakistan could boil over into a nuclear exchange at any time – but could there be a surprise upside?
A controversial article by the Washington Examiner’s executive editor Philip Klein suggests that there could be an unexpected benefit if the dispute over Kashmir developed into a full-scale nuclear war between Pakistan and India .
Although a nuclear conflict would cause unprecedented loss of life, some scientists think that a small scale exchange of nukes would reverse global warming – and perhaps even cause a dangerous global cooling trend.
In 2011, NASA scientists released a report that predicted the effect of detonating 100 Hiroshima-size bombs.
They said that such an conflict would have a dramatic effect on the world’s climate.
A ‘small scale’ nuclear war that the NASA scientists imagined would sent up to 5 maggots of black carbon into the upper atmosphere. As National Geographic wrote, "In NASA climate models, this carbon then absorbed solar heat and, like a hot-air balloon, quickly lofted even higher, where the soot would take much longer to clear from the sky."
This would cause temperatures to fall 1 degree Celsius, or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, over the three years immediately following the war, dipping as low as 2.25 F before starting to rise again.
Average global temperatures would still be up to one degree Fahrenheit lower a decade later.
That doesn’t mean a nuclear war is the answer to our current dangerous warming trend. The lead scientist on the NASA study, Luke Oman, says: ”Agriculture ... would likely be disrupted from the combination of cooler temperatures, less precipitation and decreases in solar radiation reaching the surface,
"This would cause widespread interruptions to growing seasons by producing more frequent frosts.”
So - as well as the initial body count which would be expected to be in the millions, crop failures caused by the cooling climate would lead to global famine.
A nuclear war, concludes Klein, looks like it might be a bad thing after all.
28 February 2019 | https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/we...ear-war-india-pakistan-global-warming-climate
ESCALATING TENSIONS between India and Pakistan could boil over into a nuclear exchange at any time – but could there be a surprise upside?
A controversial article by the Washington Examiner’s executive editor Philip Klein suggests that there could be an unexpected benefit if the dispute over Kashmir developed into a full-scale nuclear war between Pakistan and India .
Although a nuclear conflict would cause unprecedented loss of life, some scientists think that a small scale exchange of nukes would reverse global warming – and perhaps even cause a dangerous global cooling trend.
In 2011, NASA scientists released a report that predicted the effect of detonating 100 Hiroshima-size bombs.
They said that such an conflict would have a dramatic effect on the world’s climate.
A ‘small scale’ nuclear war that the NASA scientists imagined would sent up to 5 maggots of black carbon into the upper atmosphere. As National Geographic wrote, "In NASA climate models, this carbon then absorbed solar heat and, like a hot-air balloon, quickly lofted even higher, where the soot would take much longer to clear from the sky."
This would cause temperatures to fall 1 degree Celsius, or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, over the three years immediately following the war, dipping as low as 2.25 F before starting to rise again.
Average global temperatures would still be up to one degree Fahrenheit lower a decade later.
That doesn’t mean a nuclear war is the answer to our current dangerous warming trend. The lead scientist on the NASA study, Luke Oman, says: ”Agriculture ... would likely be disrupted from the combination of cooler temperatures, less precipitation and decreases in solar radiation reaching the surface,
"This would cause widespread interruptions to growing seasons by producing more frequent frosts.”
So - as well as the initial body count which would be expected to be in the millions, crop failures caused by the cooling climate would lead to global famine.
A nuclear war, concludes Klein, looks like it might be a bad thing after all.
