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  Climate MADness Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-23 08:10 -0600
    Re: Climate MADness jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-23 19:02 +0000

#534779 — Climate MADness

Climate MADness
> http://thebulletin.org/climate-madness


> It's strange that so many politicians today can't see the connection
> between nuclear war and climate catastrophe. Scientists long ago
> realized that a full-scale nuclear exchange would wreak havoc not
> just through bomb damage and radiation, but also by altering the
> climate. This realization played a major role in the Cold War
> endgame, when both the United States and the Soviet Union understood
> that a nuclear war would destroy agriculture and ecosystems over vast
> areas. As former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev explained in an
> interview with Salon in 2000: "Models made by Russian and American
> scientists showed that a nuclear war would result in a nuclear winter
> that would be extremely destructive to all life on Earth; the
> knowledge of that was a great stimulus to us, to people of honor and
> morality, to act in that situation."
>

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to 
get better. It's not."

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Climate MADness
>> http://thebulletin.org/climate-madness
> 
> 
>> It's strange that so many politicians today can't see the connection
>> between nuclear war and climate catastrophe. Scientists long ago
>> realized that a full-scale nuclear exchange would wreak havoc not
>> just through bomb damage and radiation, but also by altering the
>> climate. This realization played a major role in the Cold War
>> endgame, when both the United States and the Soviet Union understood
>> that a nuclear war would destroy agriculture and ecosystems over vast
>> areas. As former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev explained in an
>> interview with Salon in 2000: "Models made by Russian and American
>> scientists showed that a nuclear war would result in a nuclear winter
>> that would be extremely destructive to all life on Earth; the
>> knowledge of that was a great stimulus to us, to people of honor and
>> morality, to act in that situation."
>>
> 
> "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to 
> get better. It's not."
 
Perhaps because there is no "climate catastrophe" on the horizon, fool.


-- 
Jim Pennino

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