Wildfire smoke 'supports nuclear winter theory' (2019 article)

[orangecrush]

"Scientists studying wildfire-triggered thunderstorms have confirmed an important element of a nuclear winter theory championed by Carl Sagan all the way back in the early 1980s.

Sagan and a team of atmospheric scientists proposed that along with radiation and blast damage, a nuclear war would create enormous firestorms in cities struck by large bombs.

These would be so intense that they would inject smoke not just into the lower atmosphere, where it would eventually be removed by rainfall, but all the way into the stratosphere, where it would linger for years, block sunlight, and plunge much of the world into an extended, deadly cold snap.

Even a relatively limited nuclear exchange – such as a war between India and Pakistan – could affect regions far removed from the combat."
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“Studies have shown that such smoke would cause global temperatures to plummet, creating risks of global famine.”


https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/earth-sciences/wildfire-smoke-supports-nuclear-winter-theory/

[roamer65]

1. Mount Tambora, 1815.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Tambora

1816 - “The year without a summer”.

[FSogol]

3. You beat me too it. And every other major eruption. n/t

[Walleye]

8. Thank you, I was searching back in my mind for that one

[MutantAndProud]

2. Sadly, sometimes it takes multiple states' skies turning orange

For the dumbasses to understand the reality of gas smoke and particulate distribution

[JCMach1]

4. A bit of smoke in NYC and just like that: it's the end.of the world

LOL

[orangecrush]

5. I'm 400 miles from NYC

And there is a grey curtain of smoke.

[JCMach1]

7. Quite normal for places that have regular forest fires...

Lived in an area of Florida with forest and swamp/muck fires.

Muck (think peat bog) can burn for weeks/months.

I am sure other wildfire prone areas are also quite familiar with these conditions.

It's just national media inhabit NYC and don't get out much.

[Walleye]

10. We have that here in Delaware and South Jersey sometimes. Call them marsh fires.

Thick black smoke

[Qutzupalotl]

6. Wow, did you miss the point.

[JCMach1]

9. Nuclear Winter is one thing... Overreaction and hyperbole about forest fire smoke

Is quite another.

Nah, no points missed here, thanks.

[Qutzupalotl]

11. They aren't saying forest fires cause nuclear winter.

They're saying studying smoke patterns supports the theory of nuclear winter after a nuclear explosion…again, not after a forest fire.

[edhopper]

12. It is affecting

50 million people and is the worst air in decades. Not a little smoke.