Sentences with phrase «resulting nuclear winter»

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.

Not exact matches

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...

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.

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

Mostly it started with speculation about nuclear winter resulting from all the burning of cities in a nuclear war.

[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.