Model Shows Nuclear War Would Cause Millennia-Long ‘Little Ice Age’

Photo caption: Anti-war protesters take part in a March 6, 2022 demonstration in London, United Kingdom. Photo credit: Mike Kemp / In Pictures via Getty Images. Article by Brett Wilkins. Common Dreams – July 8, 2022.

“We hope that this new study will encourage more nations to ratify the ban treaty,” one of the paper’s co-authors said, referring to the landmark Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine revives the terrifying specter of thermonuclear annihilation, a scientific study published Thursday revealed that a nuclear exchange involving as few as hundreds of warheads would likely cause a “little ice age” lasting centuries or even millennia. […]

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