• IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 days ago

    Oh i think i see where the misunderstanding is. So with nukes the ash they say will cause the cooling isnt from the explosions. What they think will happen is the bombs act as a spark which causes massive wildfires that engulf the entire region. Thats the ash they are concerned with not the ash from the initial explosions.

    So rather than thinking of it in terms of explosions think of it in terms of the entire subcontinent burning for weeks.

    • Saeculum [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      5 days ago

      No, I do get that, but the emissions from extensive fires across the region are still substantially different from what you’d see in the kind of event we have seen produce actual global cooling events like the 1815 eruption.

      I’m willing to believe that it’s possible, but I think the initial study suggesting it could happen makes some overly broad assumptions and I’ve seen subsequent studies fail to reach the same conclusion with similar analysis.