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2007 study on global nuclear war
A study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research in July 2007,[13] Nuclear winter revisited with a modern climate model and current nuclear arsenals: Still catastrophic consequences,[14] used current climate models to look at the consequences of a global nuclear war involving most or all of the world's current nuclear arsenals (which the authors described as being only about a third the size of the world's arsenals twenty years earlier). The authors used a global circulation model, ModelE from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which they noted "has been tested extensively in global warming experiments and to examine the effects of volcanic eruptions on climate." The model was used to investigate the effects of a war involving the entire current global nuclear arsenal, projected to release about 150 Tg of smoke into the atmosphere, as well as a war involving about one third of the current nuclear arsenal, projected to release about 50 Tg of smoke. In the 150 Tg case they found that:
A global average surface cooling of –7°C to –8°C persists for years, and after a decade the cooling is still –4°C (Fig. 2). Considering that the global average cooling at the depth of the last ice age 18,000 yr ago was about –5°C, this would be a climate change unprecedented in speed and amplitude in the history of the human race. The temperature changes are largest over land ... Cooling of more than –20°C occurs over large areas of North America and of more than –30°C over much of Eurasia, including all agricultural regions.
In addition, they found that this cooling caused a weakening of the global hydrological cycle, reducing global precipitation by about 45%. As for the 50 Tg case involving one third of current nuclear arsenals, they said that the simulation "produced climate responses very similar to those for the 150 Tg case, but with about half the amplitude," but that "the time scale of response is about the same." They did not discuss the implications for agriculture in depth, but noted that a 1986 study which assumed no food production for a year projected that "most of the people on the planet would run out of food and starve to death by then" and commented that their own results show that "this period of no food production needs to be extended by many years, making the impacts of nuclear winter even worse than previously thought."
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by mkgandhas
If Pravda was so good at predicting things then why is it they didn't foresee the Soviet Union/Eastern Europe collapse or their horrible defeat in Afghanistan?
Originally posted by mkgandhas
Because of orders from bosses.First it was a pravda interview of an russian economist in the know of classified info. leaked by the russian govt to prepare citizens to transfer their dollars into gold
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by mkgandhas
If Pravda was so good at predicting things then why is it they didn't foresee the Soviet Union/Eastern Europe collapse or their horrible defeat in Afghanistan?
Originally posted by mkgandhas
reply to post by Germanicus
British royal family and Rothschild are the head of the hydra.Chinese should go for the head.
Originally posted by mkgandhas
And it is the pravda tabliod not soviet pravda.