A Small Nuclear War Would Stall Global Warming

Haven't I been warning about this for a decade?

By Natalie Wolchover

publishedFebruary 28, 2011

The Stokes atmospheric nuclear test, conducted at the Nevada Test Site on August 7, 1957, exploded from a balloon. (Image credit: Nevada Division of Environmental Protection).

NASA computer models reveal what a small, regional nuclear war in one part of the world would do to the global climate and environment. The results are grim.

If 100 Hiroshima-sized bombs, each as powerful as 15,000 tons of TNT, were exchanged in a war between two developing-world nuclear powers such as India and Pakistan, models show the resulting fires would send five million metric tons of black carbon into the upper troposphere - the lowest-altitude layer of the atmosphere.

There, the soot would absorb solar heat and rise like a hot-air balloon, reaching heights from which it would not easily settle back to the ground.

In the shade of this carbon shield, Earth would cool. "The effects would [lead] to unprecedented climate change," said NASA physical scientist Luke Oman at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week. Oman's and his colleagues' models show that for two to three years after a regional nuclear war, average global temperatures would drop by at least 2.25 degrees F (1.25 degrees C), and as much as 5.4 to 7.2 degrees F (3 to 4 degrees C) in the tropics, Europe, Asia and Alaska.

But the reversal of the global warming trend wouldn't be a good thing. "Our results suggest that agriculture could be severely impacted, especially in areas that are susceptible to late-spring and early-fall frosts," said Oman, who compared the likely post-war crop failures and famines to those that followed the 1815 volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia.

Additionally, the models showed global precipitation would reduce by 10 percent globally for one to four years, and the ozone layer would thin, resulting in an influx of dangerous ultraviolet radiation. These results confirm predictions made previously by researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

One hundred Hiroshima-sized bombs make up a mere 0.03 percent of the worldwide nuclear weapons arsenal.

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Like I have said before, keep an eye out for the resurgence of these crazy ideas all based on propaganda from the former Soviet Union.

“Nuclear Winter” was a crackpot idea the KGB promoted.

“Global Warming” as well.

It’s just like these innumerable Putin apologists blaming the West for all the troubles in Ukraine. Putin had no choice but to invade, it, like everything else, is all the White men in North America’s fault and their puppets in Western Europe! The West is clearly fascist just like the NAZIs from “Operation Paperclip” and we just need to give Putin everything he wants including a formal surrender.

Where our current administration is clearly just a puppet of China, if they can’t steal the next election like they did the last one, their number may be up.

China, with no significant combat experience, may be terrified to actually enter combat as their capabilities may be far inferior to the Russians. Who are now employing NKVD troops to shoot any soldiers retreating from combat! I always say, “Ever try to fix a Chinese VCR?” Hint- don’t try.

In any event, keep your ears and eyes alert for any talk of a limited nuclear event required to stall the inevitable progression of global warming. The most likely “ideal” region for this action to occur would be the “sparsely populated US” northern plains which coincidentally contains the Minuteman III silos.

Yes, they think we are that stupid!