Science Alert September 1, 2019
According to a team of researchers in the US (Rutgers University, NCAR, University of Colorado) if all of Russia and the US’s nuclear weapons were used in a conflict today, we could expect a shocking drop in global temperatures, less precipitation, and a lot less food to go around, nuclear particles would be transported between the hemispheres within two weeks. Global temperatures would then plunge by around 9 degrees Celsius over the next 12 months, plant growth would be limited, aerosols in the atmosphere could cause an average 30 percent drop in precipitation around the planet within the first few months and within several years drop even further by between 47 and 58 percent. Newer model optimistically has temperature recovery beginning within five years. But it would take around a decade for the blanket of cloud that would be scattering and absorbing solar radiation to disperse. Two years ago, the UN convened a conference to negotiate a Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. So far only half of the fifty nations required as signatories have agreed to its terms. The US isn’t one of them…read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE
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