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Analysis: Nuclear war would be more devastating for Earth’s climate than cold war predictions

www.ucl.ac.uk Analysis: Nuclear war would be more devastating for Earth’s climate than cold war predictions

Professor Mark Maslin (UCL Geography) highlights in The Conversation research that used modern climate models to map the effects of a nuclear war, and which found the resulting nuclear winter would plunge the planet into a “nuclear little ice age” lasting thousands of years.

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Yea, I don't think we'd have to worry about it much though.
- Given that the US is currently debating whether to start a full on WW3, it's absolutely something to worry about right now.
  
  I hadn't heard that. Do you have a source for that?
  
  I'm not talking about nuclear war. I'm talking about the climate after a nuclear war - what the article and the headline is about. The implication of my comment is that there would be no people to worry about the climate because they'd all be dead on account of global thermonuclear war.
Hopefully Russia ceases their invasion soon then. They could have ended it any time they wanted, but for some reason, they insist on keeping their "three-day, special military operation" going.

I'm rooting for peace. Hopefully, Russia comes around.
- It's quite obvious that Russia is not going to just pack up and go home at this point. The only question here is whether the west would end the world in a nuclear holocaust if it can't have Ukraine in its sphere of influence.
  
  That's an interesting way of framing Russia ending the world in a nuclear holocaust because Ukraine didn't want to be a part of Russia's sphere of influence.
  
  It would be best for everyone if Russia would stop the escalation, and I hope they do. If not, we have to find a better solution to imperialism than appeasement, because that doesn't work long-term either.

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