Sentences with phrase «the nuclear winter»

«I always assume nuclear winter, which makes me conservative and diligent,» he says.

It's quite a change from the «financial nuclear winter» Clio faced during its first round of fundraising in 2009, recalls CEO Jack Newton.

The fall of 2002 was a nuclear winter for venture capital.

That's not to say it was a nuclear winter; Facebook, Twitter, SpaceX, and Dropbox were a few of the companies founded and funded during that stretch.

A couple of years later during the nuclear winter that fell on Silicon Valley in the wake of the dot - com bust, I started my own company.

The nuclear winter of the gold - mining industry will have inescapable intermediate to longer - term effects on future mine supply.

Some treatments attempting to raise consciousness on the ecological, nuclear situation paint a picture of nuclear winter or the extent of death and destruction that will occur after such an event.

Look at it this way, maybe the prayer was that the boy would never have to see a nuclear winter.

It's somewhat amusing to see that Crossan hasn't outgrown his generation's fear of nuclear winter.

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.

Some attempts to raise consciousness about the ecological, nuclear situation paint a picture of nuclear winter or the extent of death and destruction that can occur.

Sagan, Carl & Turco, Richard (1991) A Path where No Man Thought: Nuclear winter and the end of the arms race New York: Random / Century.

Additionally, the horror would include catastrophic biological aftereffects from probable destruction of the ozone layer and a nuclear winter likely to end all plant and animal life on earth.

We have no more right to suppose that our age of threatened nuclear winter or ecological destruction is closer to the end than the first - century Christians had to follow false prophets during the Jewish revolt.

The talent of the starting 11 is one thing, but what's kept the Tide moving like a nuclear winter through the SEC is depth.

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.

You're not exactly hunkering down for a nuclear winter, but if you can do a bit of batch cooking for the freezer to make things easier in the first few weeks then you'll feel smug if nothing else.

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.

NEW DELHI — India's long nuclear winter has come to end.

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».

Computer models suggest that the aerosols, rich in sulfate, would have reflected sunshine and plunged Earth into darkness for up to five years, shutting down photosynthesis and triggering a nuclear winter.

The subsequent fallout and nuclear winter would turn the planet's atmosphere hazy, which we could detect, but some planets are very cloudy anyway so this wouldn't be a definitive sign of alien apocalypse.

Several years ago, for example, computer models were used to holster the theory of nuclear winter, which concluded that smoke and dust lofted into the atmospherein a nuclear war would block sunlight and dangerously chill the planet.

Studies from the 1980s predicted that smoke from a nuclear war would blot out the sun, and the resulting nuclear winter would produce widespread famine and chaos.

Twenty - five years ago international teams of scientists showed that a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union could produce a «nuclear winter.»

Mammoths didn't stand a chance, says Northern Arizona University space scientist Ted Bunch: «If the fires and the shock wave didn't get them, there was a nuclear winter that blocked out the sun and made eating difficult.»

Clearly a nuclear exchange in North Korea or anywhere else is to be deplored, but I doubt that «millions of tonnes of smoke would gush into the stratosphere, resulting in a nuclear winter».

You warn us about the perils of a «local» nuclear war that would result «in a nuclear winter that would...

Would nuclear war mean nuclear winter?

Another impact proposed in the paper is a global nuclear winter from impact dust.

I think this shows that the Russians hoped to use nuclear winter for propaganda, but this does not make nuclear winter false.

This was before people worried about nuclear winter or climate change.

ScienceBlogger Eric Michael Johnson of Primate Diaries discusses The Population Bomb, nuclear winter, and the role of science in public advocacy.

My impression is that his insights about aerosols earlier in his career were later helpful to understanding nuclear winter.

Does this mean that the hypothesis of nuclear winter does not survive testing by modern climate models?

Sagan frequently clashed with Edward Teller, who strongly disputed Sagan on both SDI and nuclear winter.

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.

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.»

An underground bomb shelter holds survivors in the wake of a nuclear winter, but their one - world civilization isn't big enough for the five of them.

One of the best - and for the vast majority of people still hotly - anticipated - films of the year is Bong Joon - ho's fantastic science fiction thriller, Snowpiercer, in which the sole survivors of a nuclear winter reside within a single...

An all - out nuclear war causing a nuclear winter would be a catastrophe for humankind; it would not only create social chaos, but also ruin the life - supporting ecosystem beyond repair4.

If you want to drive through a nuclear winter in style, this is the car for you.

In one of those instances where you look at the speaker and ask yourself if there isn't just a hint of conflict of interest, Mark Coker, CEO of Smashwords, said that Amazon's practices, if left unchecked, could lead to a «nuclear winter» for book publishing.

If Amazon's business practices continue unchecked the result could be a «nuclear winter» for book publishing — Mark Coker

There is nothing in their training that prepares them for dealing with the credit equivalent of nuclear winter.

COD Zombies if it was set in Manchester after a nuclear winter.

Speaking on an emergency public broadcast video, Secretary of Defense James Mattis stated that all Americans should consider picking up all of the core Fallout games, should they wish to have the experience and skills necessary to survive the coming nuclear winter.

A message stating «Nuclear winter is coming in» is followed by a countdown set to finish in a little over 6 days from now, December 1.

The folk sheltering from nuclear winter in Metro: Last Light's subway system are determined to be diverse.