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.
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.
Explore the Russian wilderness in vast, non-linear levels and follow a thrilling story - line inspired by the novels of Dmitry Glukhovsky that spans an entire year through spring, summer and autumn to the
depths 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.
I first interviewed Schneider in the early 1980s while trying to make sense of the percolating
notion of nuclear winter, which Schneider — always following the data — ended up determining would more likely be a «nuclear autumn.»
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.
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...
Urth brings to mind Barry Hines's 1984 British television drama Threads, produced at the tail end of the Cold War and famous for its realistic
imagining of nuclear winter.
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 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.
The video also explores the
relationship of nuclear winter studies to one way to «geoengineer» a cooler climate — lofting sun - blocking sulfate aerosols into the atmosphere.
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).
By 1973, and the «global cooling» scare, it was in full swing, with predictions of the imminent collapse of the world within ten to twenty years, exacerbated by the
impacts of a nuclear winter.
Explore the Russian wilderness across vast, non-linear levels and follow a thrilling story - line that spans an entire year through spring, summer and autumn to the
depths of nuclear winter.
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.
«I had a professor who to people my age is very well known, Carl Sagan, who was the guy who really promoted the
notion of nuclear winter.»
But the
dangers of nuclear winter had been heralded nearly two months earlier by Carl Sagan in the October 30, 1983, issue of Parade magazine, a supplement to Sunday newspapers (Seitz, 1986).