Even a Small Nuclear War Would Mean Mass Famine
Some bombs are so powerful that they could change the Earth’s climate and cause the food supply to collapse.
Things can always get worse.
ByFaye Flam Bloomberg
November 19, 2022, 1:00 PM UTC
Faye Flam is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering science. She is host of the “Follow the Science†podcast. @fayeflam
"This century’s worst-case climate scenario isn’t global warming of 4 or even 5 degrees Celsius. It’s a nuclear winter that would trigger global cooling up to 12 or 13 degrees C.
That would happen within weeks of the start of a nuclear war, as smoke from burning cities blotted out the sun. The result would be a massive famine as the ocean’s food chain collapsed and global crops failed."....
Some bombs are so powerful that they could change the Earth’s climate and cause the food supply to collapse.
Things can always get worse.
ByFaye Flam Bloomberg
November 19, 2022, 1:00 PM UTC
Faye Flam is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering science. She is host of the “Follow the Science†podcast. @fayeflam
"This century’s worst-case climate scenario isn’t global warming of 4 or even 5 degrees Celsius. It’s a nuclear winter that would trigger global cooling up to 12 or 13 degrees C.
That would happen within weeks of the start of a nuclear war, as smoke from burning cities blotted out the sun. The result would be a massive famine as the ocean’s food chain collapsed and global crops failed."....
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