Apparently, all is not lost in the war against global warming. Scientists from NASA and a number of other institutions have recently been modeling the effects of a war involving a hundred Hiroshima-level bombs, or 0.03 percent of the world's current nuclear arsenal, according to National Geographic. The research suggests five million metric tons of black carbon would be swept up into the lowest portion of the atmosphere.
The result, according to NASA climate models, could actually be global cooling.
While the global cooling caused by superpower-on-superpower war could be catastrophic (hence the term "nuclear winter") a small scale, planned detonation, could have an impact on the world climate. Models suggest that though the world is currently in a warming trend, small detonations could lower global temperatures by 2.25 degrees C for two-to-three years following war.
In more tropical areas temperatures could fall 5.4 to 7.2 degrees C.
Then we would just need to decide which 1300Km2 of the planet we are happy to sacrifice to this holocaust.
The calculations would have to be finely tuned as an over ‘correction’ would tip the planet into a nuclear winter which would have devastating effects on the planet’s weather and crop production.
Let’s hope we are not forced into taking such desperate measures.
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