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NASA studying nuclear warfare as possible cure for global warming / Scrape TV


March 1 2011
Washington, D.C. – Though the science behind the causes is certainly weak and debated, there is little doubt that global warming is happening. Whether a result of manmade events or the result of a series of natural events, or some combination of famine
the two, the reasons are just as important as the event itself if we have any hope of reversing the trend. With instabilities in the food chain and potential weather disasters a consequence of global warming, reversing the trend seems like something we must explore no matter the challenge.
While many solutions have been proposed – reducing CO2 emissions, rebuilding reefs – the hesitation to fundamentally alter the way in which we live our lives has put a kink in virtually all such efforts. Those obstacles are likely to only grow in the coming years as nations such as China and India start coming online in more significant ways, leading many to push for more radical solutions to the problems. Now NASA may have stumbled upon just such a solution by employing another menace that seemed to be on an unstoppable path towards the destruction of humanity, nuclear warfare. In laboratory tests the space agency showed that even regional nuclear war could reverse the trend towards warming by reducing the impact of the sun on the planet. While such an event would also bring a nuclear winter, mass famine, and years without summers, it may in fact be the only solution and bring long term benefits with short term pain.nuclear explosion
“Our results suggest that agriculture could be severely impacted, especially in areas that are susceptible to late-spring and early-fall frosts. Examples similar to the crop failures and famines experienced following the Mount Tambora eruption in 1815 could be widespread and last several years,” said researcher Luke Oman. “That said, we would see a drop in average global temperatures of about 1.25 degrees Celsius for a few years which would dramatically alter the trend towards global warming. Even ten years after the event the global temperature would be significantly lower than they are now.”
Any such conflict would also likely kill millions of people and cause radioactive fallout for decades.hiroshima
“This model shows very clearly, above everything else, that human actions can have an impact on the environment. We’ve seen this happen before and it’s clear that if we have an impact on changing the environment one way, we are able to change it in a positive way,” said Scrape TV Science analyst Dr. Howard Poe. “The biggest danger with using something like nuclear conflict to reverse the trend is that we don’t resolve the underlying cause. While it would certainly give us a bit of breathing room it would resolve the situations that caused the problem in the first place. That would mean that global warming would start again, that we will have done no favours for future generations in the long term.”
It’s thought most likely that such a conflict would occur between India and Pakistan.supermutant
“Of course that may not really matter. By that stage much of humanity could very well be irradiated freaks and totally immune to the effects of global warming. Most radioactive mutation results in arms growing out of heads and not some kind of really rad superpower so we really can’t bank on such a plan to help our children in the long term,” continued Poe. “In the long term we would probably be better off trying to find a less explosive solution to the problem. It may work in the short term but it might be better to find a different long term plan.”
It’s not clear what the solution to radioactive monsters might be.
Anna Phillips, Science Correspondent

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