Carl Sagan Warned the World About Nuclear Winter
The concept of "nuclear winter" is a great example of science gone wrong. As it turns out, the original 1980s report vastly overestimated the amount of combustible fuel in cities and inaccurately estimated both modern nuclear weapon yield and blast size. Nuclear war would <i>not</i> create firestorms capable of injecting soot into the stratosphere and would <i>not</i> cause years-long crop failures. Nuclear war is, in fact, quite survivable.<p><a href="https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4244" rel="nofollow">https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4244</a><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/475037b" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/475037b</a><p><a href="https://www.quora.com/How-many-nukes-would-it-take-to-cause-a-minor-nuclear-winter-What-about-a-moderate-one/answer/Allen-E-Hall-2" rel="nofollow">https://www.quora.com/How-many-nukes-would-it-take-to-cause-...</a>