[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.