Global Warming IS reversible. Here's how.

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To see what climate effects ... a regional nuclear conflict might have, scientists from NASA and other institutions modeled a war involving a hundred Hiroshima-level bombs, each packing the equivalent of 15,000 tons of TNT—just 0.03 percent of the world's current nuclear arsenal.

The researchers predicted the resulting fires would kick up roughly five million metric tons of black carbon into the upper part of the troposphere, the lowest layer of the Earth's atmosphere.

In NASA climate models, this carbon then absorbed solar heat and, like a hot-air balloon, quickly lofted even higher, where the soot would take much longer to clear from the sky.

The global cooling caused by these high carbon clouds wouldn't be as catastrophic as a superpower-versus-superpower nuclear winter, but "the effects would still be regarded as leading to unprecedented climate change," research physical scientist Luke Oman said during a press briefing Friday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C.

Earth is currently in a long-term warming trend. After a regional nuclear war, though, average global temperatures would drop by 2.25 degrees F (1.25 degrees C) for two to three years afterward, the models suggest.

At the extreme, the tropics, Europe, Asia, and Alaska would cool by 5.4 to 7.2 degrees F (3 to 4 degrees C), according to the models. Parts of the Arctic and Antarctic would actually warm a bit, due to shifted wind and ocean-circulation patterns, the researchers said.

After ten years, average global temperatures would still be 0.9 degree F (0.5 degree C) lower than before the nuclear war, the models predict.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/02/110223-nuclear-war-winter-global-warming-environment-science-climate-change/

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Wow....only 100 Hiroshima sized bombs? We could easily find 100 places nobody wants to live in anymore.

[Dakine10 5,452]

Great, man made global cooling. I wonder how those arguments would turn out.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Great, man made global cooling. I wonder how those arguments would turn out.

"Humans can't change the earth's climate. Only God can."

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Wow....only 100 Hiroshima sized bombs? We could easily find 100 places nobody wants to live in anymore.

I'm voting California.

People have been waiting a long time for Beach Front Property in Arizona.

I'm sure we could trigger an earthquake big enough by bombing the hell out of Cali.

[웃 910]

I know just the place:

Edited February 28, 2011 by Lord Infamous

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I'm voting California.

People have been waiting a long time for Beach Front Property in Arizona.

I'm sure we could trigger an earthquake big enough by bombing the hell out of Cali.

Are you out of your friggin mind? California has some of the most desirable real estate in the country. Only jealous people who can't afford it, loathe it.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Are you out of your friggin mind? California has some of the most desirable real estate in the country. Only jealous people who can't afford it, loathe it.

Let me see...

I can buy a 2-bedroom, 1 bathroom small house in a California neighborhood that SUCKS for $600,000

OR

I can buy a 5-bedroom 3 1/2 bath home with a pool, 3-car garage, big back yard, etc. here for the same price or less even.

Yeah, i'm oh so jealous.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Let me see...

I can buy a 2-bedroom, 1 bathroom small house in a California neighborhood that SUCKS for $600,000

OR

I can buy a 5-bedroom 3 1/2 bath home with a pool, 3-car garage, big back yard, etc. here for the same price or less even.

Yeah, i'm oh so jealous.

I'd take Southern coastline climate over Texas any day, along with most everyone, which is one of the reasons you can't afford it.

[Zero Sum 305]

Are you out of your friggin mind? California has some of the most desirable real estate in the country. Only jealous people who can't afford it, loathe it.

You are a libertarian aren't you? Your logic implies that people should only move to California desirable areas only if they can afford it. I think I am onto you, sir. Shame on you for thinking like this. All people should have the right to work for their desirable real estate and be able to afford it based on their hard-earned salaries. Even if they have to work 200+ hours a week.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

You are a libertarian aren't you? Your logic implies that people should only move to California desirable areas only if they can afford it. I think I am onto you, sir. Shame on you for thinking like this. All people should have the right to work for their desirable real estate and be able to afford it based on their hard-earned salaries. Even if they have to work 200+ hours a week.

People hate what they cannot have. It's written somewhere, like in the Right Winger's Guide to the Galazy.

[Zero Sum 305]

People hate what they cannot have. It's written somewhere, like in the Right Winger's Guide to the Galazy.

Is this the same as how some people oddly hate some things because they can't have the intelligence (learned) to figure out those things? With science in mind I can only hope that this sad behavior gets replaced by reason, but many of those same people are also leading an all-out assault against education in this country so the future does look bleak sometimes if they have more babies than those that value the power of education.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Is this the same as how some people oddly hate some things because they can't have the intelligence (learned) to figure out those things? With science in mind I can only hope that this sad behavior gets replaced by reason, but many of those same people are also leading an all-out assault against education in this country so the future does look bleak sometimes if they have more babies than those that value the power of education.

Probably. At least it falls along the same logic. If you're educated and smart, I loathe you because secretly I'm intimidated by your intelligence.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

I'd take Southern coastline climate over Texas any day, along with most everyone, which is one of the reasons you can't afford it.

Yes, that's why Californians have been flocking to the Dallas/Fort Worth metro area the past several years.

[Zero Sum 305]

Probably. At least it falls along the same logic. If you're educated and smart, I loathe you because secretly I'm intimidated by your intelligence.

Lots of probablies. I don't believe it. This is the internet. Where nobody is jealous and everyone is smarter than you.