Let me ruin your day …
Not enough bad news today? How about this one: Germany’s “Der Spiegel” reports in it’s online edition today about some surprising finds from two different American research teams, when they simulated a nuclear war between countires like Israel and Iran, Pakistan and India or North Korea and one of it’s neighbours (ok, probably not China).
The conclusion? Although everybody (means every American) thinks that those war fronts are far, far away from the US, a war in those regions would have devastating effects all over the world. Not only economically, but more importantly, the weather all over the world would be affected (which again would have a signficant economic impact). First, go over and read ” Atmospheric effects and societal consequences of regional scale nuclear conflicts and acts of individual nuclear terrorism”, which was prepared by a team of scientists around Own Toon at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Next check out “Climatic consequences of regional nuclear conflicts” a study conducted by researches around Alan Robock at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Chilling …