Current Events > A simple and quick solution to Climate Change has been found.

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

Even a regional nuclear war could spark "unprecedented" global cooling and reduce rainfall for years, according to U.S. government computer models.

To see what climate effects such 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 TNTjust 0.03 percent of the world's current nuclear arsenal. (See a National Geographic magazine feature on weapons of mass destruction.)

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.

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This was a Futurama joke
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But then we'd have to decide who gets nuked.

I vote for Antarctica. Those goddamn penguins are up to no good, and we all know it.
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Irony posted...

This was a Futurama joke

the one with farting robots moving the planet away from the sun?
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monkmith posted...

Irony posted...

This was a Futurama joke

the one with farting robots moving the planet away from the sun?

The one where Fry's like I'm glad global warming didn't happen they're like it did it was cancelled out by nuclear winter
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DarkTransient posted...

But then we'd have to decide who gets nuked.

I vote for Antarctica. Those goddamn penguins are up to no good, and we all know it.

Agreed
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Forgettable posted...

DarkTransient posted...

But then we'd have to decide who gets nuked.

I vote for Antarctica. Those goddamn penguins are up to no good, and we all know it.

You take that back. Penguins are the best animals

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