Sentences with phrase «in nuclear winter»

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

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

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».

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

North Korea's decision to participate in the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang was considered a symbolic breakthrough amid rising nuclear tensions and a war that never officially ended.

Since the Winter Olympics earlier this year in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and sweeping rounds of US - led sanctions after North Korean nuclear and missile tests, Kim has also apparently opened up to diplomacy.

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.

After months of missile and nuclear tests that raised tensions on the Korean Peninsula, Kim suddenly extended an olive branch, saying in his New Year's address on Jan. 1 that he would prepare for his country's participation in the Feb. 9 - 25 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics hosted by South Korea.

What Jews have given America: nuclear energy, a cure for polio, Hollywood, the songs Walking in a Winter Wonderland, Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire, Frosty the Snowman, Let it Snow Let it Snow Let it Snow, White Christmas, Rudolph the Red - Nosed Reindeer, It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, Rockin» Around the Christmas Tree, Silver Bells, I'll Be Home for Christmas, A Holly Jolly Christmas, There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays, Easter Parade, God Bless America.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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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.

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...

After fellow Koreans Kim Ji - Woon and Park Chan - Wook launched their English language debut films (The Last Stand and Stoker, respectively) the most nuanced of the trio of directorial superstars, Bong Joon - Ho is delivering the largest in scale, the nuclear - winter bound science fiction flick, Snowpiercer.

From a photographic standpoint, there was what I wanted to convey about Johannesburg, which is that it's almost this burnt, nuclear wasteland, at least in winter.

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.

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

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.

COD Zombies if it was set in Manchester after a 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.

It's an investigative piece I wrote about a Soviet climate modeler who worked on global warming and nuclear winter, almost undoubtedly was a spy, traveled the world with Carl Sagan pressing the nuclear - winter case for disarmament and then vanished mysteriously in Spain.

His was the marquee name * among five authors of the December 23, 1983, Science paper, «Nuclear Winter: Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions» and Sagan exposed millions of people to the threat in a Parade magazine special report and television appearances.

I'm interviewed for the segment because my first in - depth article on climate science — the cover story in the March, 1985, issue of Science Digest — was on nuclear winter.

Updated, April 6, 12:13 p.m. The Retro Report team, in partnership with The Times and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, has taken a fascinating fresh look at nuclear winter, the Cold War hypothesis that vast smoke clouds from cities burned in a nuclear war could chill the planet and trigger famine and worse.

In the video segment, I note how the evolution and erosion of the nuclear winter hypothesis (which two climate scientists, Stephen H. Schneider and Starley Thompson, later concluded would be more like a «nuclear autumn» *) fit a cycle often seen in consequential sciencIn the video segment, I note how the evolution and erosion of the nuclear winter hypothesis (which two climate scientists, Stephen H. Schneider and Starley Thompson, later concluded would be more like a «nuclear autumn» *) fit a cycle often seen in consequential sciencin consequential science:

The video report (on YouTube here) includes insights from two early analysts of nuclear winter, Michael MacCracken, who was at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the early 1980s, and Alan Robock of Rutgers, who continues to study the concept and has published on how even a small nuclear exchange between, say, Pakistan and India, could have big impacts on agricultural yields.

While part of the scientific discussion at the time of the amount of cooling is portrayed in your video, the most recent studies, including by myself, with modern computer models show that indeed even the current reduced American and Russian nuclear arsenals can still produce nuclear winter, threatening the entire human race with starvation.

Steve and I concurred that hyperbole corrodes scientific credibility, witness our separate critiques of the selling of nuclear winter, but we differed in our estimates of how the episode might impact the future credibility of climate sciencee.

Just like the predictions then of doomsday coming in form of «nuclear winter», nobody can escape being exposed today to the projection of the ominous effects of greenhouse gases proclaimed by the «experts», the news media, politicians and, of course, Hollywood.

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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?

Almost 20 years ago, Harold Lewis, a respected physicist who had advised the government and the Pentagon on matters ranging from nuclear winter to missile defense, included his assessment of climate change from the buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases in a book on technological risk:

Mike Crichton's latest pageturner has drawn on my earlier critique of the epic overselling of «Nuclear Winter», but fails to mention how I categorized the media hype in dialog with Steve Schneider at a 1987 symposium:» Nuclear Winter is a joke played at the expense of the credibility of the climate modeling community on the eve of the global warming debate»

I first interviewed him in 1985 for a Science Digest cover story I was writing on another type of climate intervention by humans — the hypothesized «nuclear winter» that could follow a nuclear war.

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.»

We would never want to be in the boat of Carl Sagan who advocated nuclear winter scenarios despite knowing how shaky the foundations for the science were, because that is how his politics went.»

That damned fool Sagan put us off in the 80's, but Dessler puts nuclear winter to rest, No worries about big rocks falling from the sky and hitting a pyrites bed.

I usually have a lot of respect for the FBI, but the section in this white paper on nuclear winter is a lot of vague innuendo that famous climate scientists are KGB dupes.