Regional war could spark "unprecedented climate change," experts predict.
A nuclear bomb explodes in a test on the Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia in the early seventies.
Photograph from AP
Charles Q. Choi
for National Geographic News
Published February 22, 2011
Even a regional nuclear war could spark "unprecedented" global cooling and reduce rainfall for years, according to U.S. government computer models.
Widespread famine and disease would likely follow, experts speculate.
During the Cold War a nuclear exchange between superpowers—such as the one feared for years between the United States and the former Soviet Union—was predicted to cause a "nuclear winter."
more:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/02/110223-nuclear-war-winter-global-warming-environment-science-climate-change/
Looks like they managed to include starvation and population control, I guess from an eco-fascist point of view it's a win-win situation.
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