Nuclear winter was and is debatable

Seitz, Russell

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Published: 06 July 2011

Nuclear winter was and is debatable

Russell Seitz¹

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Alan Robock's contention that there has been no real scientific debate about the 'nuclear winter' concept is itself debatable (Nature 473, 275–276; 2011).

This potential climate disaster, popularized in Science in 1983, rested on the output of a one-dimensional model that was later shown to overestimate the smoke a nuclear holocaust might engender. More refined estimates, combined with advanced three-dimensional models (see http://go.nature.com/kss8te), have dramatically reduced the extent and severity of the projected cooling.

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Published: 06 July 2011
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Russell Seitz 7 July 2011, 14:12

For a direct comparison of the time -temperature curves produced by the models of Robock et al 2007 and TTAPS 1984, see:
http://s1098.photobucket.co...