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How long to rebuild civilisation after an all out nuclear war?
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<blockquote data-quote="eclipsenow" data-source="post: 77655375" data-attributes="member: 274355"><p>I need to update this thread. My position has changed since reading some more about it.</p><p></p><p>Recent studies of smoke in the 2019 Australian 'mega-fires' have shown that black carbon in smoke can be heated by sunlight and lifted even higher up. In a full scale nuclear war, the firestorms might lift all that soot up 15 to 20 km. The sun keeps it there - like a hot air balloon with enough fuel to keep the balloon aloft for years. It might float around up there for a decade!</p><p></p><p>While hundreds of millions might die in the nuclear war itself, shutting down all agriculture across the Northern Hemisphere might starve up to 5 BILLION.</p><p></p><p>They estimate only 1% of many northern nations would survive. [MEDIA=youtube]-xthzy1PxTA[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>Study by Xia et al - 2022. <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-022-00573-0" target="_blank">Global food insecurity and famine from reduced crop, marine fishery and livestock production due to climate disruption from nuclear war soot injection - Nature Food</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eclipsenow, post: 77655375, member: 274355"] I need to update this thread. My position has changed since reading some more about it. Recent studies of smoke in the 2019 Australian 'mega-fires' have shown that black carbon in smoke can be heated by sunlight and lifted even higher up. In a full scale nuclear war, the firestorms might lift all that soot up 15 to 20 km. The sun keeps it there - like a hot air balloon with enough fuel to keep the balloon aloft for years. It might float around up there for a decade! While hundreds of millions might die in the nuclear war itself, shutting down all agriculture across the Northern Hemisphere might starve up to 5 BILLION. They estimate only 1% of many northern nations would survive. [MEDIA=youtube]-xthzy1PxTA[/MEDIA] Study by Xia et al - 2022. [URL="https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-022-00573-0"]Global food insecurity and famine from reduced crop, marine fishery and livestock production due to climate disruption from nuclear war soot injection - Nature Food[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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