Sentences with phrase «nuclear winter as»

Instead of trashing real climate scientists who study nuclear winter as stooges of KGB manipulation, maybe the FBI should see if the Wegman fiasco might be an actual example of their observation that «foreign researchers may be under pressure to make their research conclude what their government wants it to conclude, or they may be ordered to write completely fabricated studies.»

Not exact matches

Thus sin appears in a Reinhold Niebuhr boomlet as the note of Christian realism needed in social ethics; ignorance receives attention through «the epistemological privilege of the poor» or an action hermeneutics; death is addressed in the issue of nuclear winter.

Dipoto's top draft picks Kyle Lewis, Joe Rizzo, Evan White and Sam Carlson all remain, as do most other recent draftees who look to help out the big - league team before we achieve nuclear winter, if we're lucky.

The White House said any discussions with North Korea must lead to the regime ending its nuclear program, as Pyongyang officials in South Korea for the Winter Olympics said their government was open to talks with the United States.

Some are more likely than others: A robot rebellion isn't imminent, but the odds of a nuclear winter snuffing out life as we know it are still depressingly good, as is the likelihood of an electromagnetic pulse frying all the electronics in the country.

As with all «new» theories, very few of those present had read the Alvarez's paper or, if they had, they failed to understand that massive impacts could bring about a so - called «nuclear winter».

Over the years, Ms. Eisenhower has served as a member of three blue ribbon commissions for the Department of Energy for three different secretaries: The Baker - Cutler Commission on U.S. Funded Non-Proliferation Programs in Russia; The Sununu - Meserve Commission on Nuclear Energy; and the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, which released its findings on a comprehensive program for the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle in the winter oNuclear Energy; and the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, which released its findings on a comprehensive program for the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle in the winter oNuclear Future, which released its findings on a comprehensive program for the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle in the winter onuclear fuel cycle in the winter of 2012.

Author of books: Atmospheres of Mars and Venus (1961, nonfiction) Planets (1966, nonfiction, with Jonathan Norton Leonard) Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966, nonfiction, with Iosif S. Shklovskii) Planetary Exploration (1970, nonfiction) Planetary Atmospheres (1971, nonfiction, with Tobias C. Owen and Harlan J. Smith) U.F.O.'s: A Scientific Debate (1972, with Thornton Page) The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (1973, nonfiction) Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1973, nonfiction) The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (1977, nonfiction) Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record (1978, nonfiction) Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (1979, nonfiction) Cosmos (1980, nonfiction) Comet (1985, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Contact (1985, novel) Nuclear Winter (1985, nonfiction) A Path where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race (1990, nonfiction, with Richard P. Turco) The Demon - Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996, essays) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are (1992, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994, essays) Billions and Billions (1996, essays) The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006, nonfiction, posthumous, with Ann Druyan)

In 1990, as tensions built toward war between the United States and Iraq, Sagan publicly stated that if Iraq lit its oilfields afire, the resulting petrochemical smoke might trigger a miniature but still disastrous nuclear winter effect.

His work as a maintenance contractor at nuclear plants during refueling outages mostly takes place in spring and fall, giving him summers and winters off.

As for Mr. Dyson, whom I last recall interviewing over 20 years ago for articles on nuclear weapons, nuclear winter and the like, his views on climate will either fade or build.

So, instead of the counterproductive rhetoric and posturing about postulated changes such as «global warming» now or «nuclear winter» of the 1980s, would it not be much more in line with time - tested human traditions to trust our ability to turn whatever situation may occur to our advantage?

After a bit of research I realized that the amount of heat (while awesome) was pathetically small and that, by comparing it to volcanoes, instead of warming we would get cooling from the dust throw up (this was before Nuclear Winter was put forward as a compelling reason against limited nucleaNuclear Winter was put forward as a compelling reason against limited nuclearnuclear war).

Back then, we were still focused on terms such as The Cold War, nuclear winter, the war on poverty, racism, the oil shock, the Middle East situation, and later on, towards of our «three score and ten» on Earth newer terms such as 9 - 11, terrorism and global warming.

Finding myself in the same foxhole as Steve Schneider when the «Nuclear Winter «balloon went up — it was launched on the anniversary of Orson Welles» War of The Worlds Broadcast with a media graphics package prepared by the Creative Department of that great K - Street PR institution Porter Novell Inc., I remarked to him that it all seemed like a bad joke on Cold War policy analysts, played at the expense of the credibility of climate modeling on the eve of the global warming debate.

But as Schneider and a coauthor explained in a widely read article, it was not likely to bring an apocalyptic winter, but it would bring a damaging «nuclear fall.»

After that comes the nuclear winter... and Trump will probably get that wrong as well.

In developing computer models of nuclear - winter scenarios, researchers use both Hamburg and the Hiroshima firestorms as example cases where soot might have been injected into the stratosphere, [4] as well as modern observations of natural, large - area wildfires.

Paul Cruzen's climate model of nuclear winter was put to the test courtesy of Saddam setting ablaze the oil wells in Kuwait in 1992, and failed miserably (as I've blogged in detail elsewhere).

The firestorms would have produce an enormous injection of CO2 as well as soot, and the impact crater in partially calcium carbonate rock would have produced direct CO2 from the reduction of that rock, but neither the «nuclear winter» not the subsequent global warming extinguished life.

Having talked to Feynman about climate modeling hype in «nuclear winter» s heyday, and been to Cargo Cult country as well, I can testify to the strong structural correspondence of the Melanesian cult's signature artifacts and that wonderful cultural construct, the Wegman Rep0rt.

As a scientist, I judge the nuclear winter theory to be a sloppy piece of work, full of gaps and unjustified assumptions.

Atmospheric nuclear explosions can be regarded as full - scale in situ tests for nuclear winter.

Not a moment too soon, and hopefully this isn't just empty rhetoric because, as we recently mentioned, China's smog is getting close to «nuclear winter» bad...

[30] This was followed by articles printed in the Wilmington morning star and the Baltimore Sun newspapers in mid to late January 1991, with the popular TV scientist personality of the time, Carl Sagan, who was also the co-author of the first few nuclear winter papers along with Richard P. Turco, John W. Birks, Alan Robock and Paul Crutzen together collectively stated that they expected catastrophic nuclear winter like effects with continental sized impacts of «sub-freezing» temperatures as a result of if the Iraqis went through with their threats of igniting 300 to 500 pressurized oil wells and they burned for a few months.

Ironically, The Detroit News quoted me as the «good guy» several years ago in an editorial on «Nuclear Autumn» (June 30, 1986), a term I coined in toning down the nuclear winter Nuclear Autumn» (June 30, 1986), a term I coined in toning down the nuclear winter nuclear winter debate.

However, there is also the global cooling effect of aerosols (such as in nuclear winter).

Sargent & Lundy (Chicago, IL) Summer and Winter 2006 Associate Intern • Prepared multi-phase modification packages for nuclear power plant systems, assisting in data collection and complex engineering calculations as well as analyzing piping systems for deadweight, thermal, and seismic conditions • Consolidated data post-processing for piping analysis into automated recording process utilizing Microsoft Excel macros • Advised co-workers on various data post-processing methods to improve efficiency and reduce errors / omissions