Sentences with phrase «study nuclear winter»

Climate scientists study nuclear winter, too.

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.»

Postscript, April 6, 12:14 p.m. Alan Robock, a Rutgers University climate scientist who has been studying the nuclear winter hypothesis since the beginning, is concerned that The Times has given too much weight to the early notion of a less severe «nuclear autumn.»

Climate scientist Alan Robock, studies nuclear winter, volcanic eruptions and climate, geoengineering, and global warming.http: / / envsci.rutgers.edu/~robock ClimateState staff interviewed Alan to give us a snapshot of the current state on these topics.

One of the Russian scientists who studied nuclear winter even works in the USA these days.

Not exact matches

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.

«The first part will trace the history of scientific study of climate change, beginning with scientific inquiry into the formation and melting of the ice ages, periods of historical cooling and warming, smog, ozone, nuclear winter, volcanoes, and global warming.

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.

The bit of research that Sagan did that made an impact was the TTAPS «Nuclear Winter» study, which was arguably an example of political activism more than climate modeling.

«The first part will trace the history of scientific study of climate change, beginning with scientific inquiry into the formation and melting of the ice ages, periods of historical cooling and warming, smog, ozone, nuclear winter, volcanoes, and global warming,» the filing explained.

I changed my views on nuclear winter making it «nuclear autumn» in 1984, incurring the wrath of the peace movement — again because the preponderance of evidence shifted with study.

The ozone losses predicted in the study are much larger than losses estimated in previous «nuclear winter» and «ultraviolet spring» scenario calculations following nuclear conflicts -LSB-...] A 1985 National Research Council Report predicted a global nuclear exchange involving thousands of megatons of explosions, rather than the 1.5 megatons assumed in the PNAS study, would deplete only 17 percent of the Northern Hemisphere's stratospheric ozone, which would recover by half in three years.

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