Nuclear weapons and Climate Change

[Trakar]

Nuclear weapons' surprising contribution to climate science

Nuclear weapons testing may at first glance appear to have little connection with climate change research. But key Cold War research laboratories and the science used to track radioactivity and model nuclear bomb blasts have today been repurposed by climate scientists. The full story appears in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Full paper by Paul Edwards available at Entangled histories: Climate science and nuclear weapons research

...The national laboratories are contributing to climate change research in other important ways. Livermore also hosts the Earth System Grid, a federated system for storing, cataloging, and delivering the vast volumes of climatesimulation data currently produced by laboratories around the world. Some climate laboratories, including the National Center for Atmospheric Research, now outsource many of their model runs to supercomputers housed at the national laboratories. As it has since 1982, Oak Ridge continues to run the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, one of the world's most important data centers for the study of radiatively active gases (gases that absorb incoming solar radiation or outgoing infrared radiation, affecting the planetary heat balance). Thus, these labs play a fundamental supporting role in creating climate knowledge.
Many of the links that connect this story seem perverse. Without nuclear weapons and fallout, we might know much less than we do about the atmosphere. Without climate models, we would not have understood the full extent of those weapons' power to annihilate not only human beings, but other species as well. Today, the laboratories
built to create the most fearsome arsenal in history are doing what they can to prevent
another catastrophe, this one caused not by behemoth governments at war, but by billions of ordinary people living ordinary lives within an energy economy that we must now
reinvent.

 

[Old Rocks]

As that wise old cowboy, Reuben Long stated, "Research is a bargain, even when it costs too much".

 

[Oddball]

Is there anything that isn't causing Goebbels warming?

 

[Trakar]

Is there anything that isn't causing Goebbels warming?

What do you mean and how is this question relevent to the OP?

 

[Trakar]

As that wise old cowboy, Reuben Long stated, "Research is a bargain, even when it costs too much".

Reub left more than the High Desert when he shuffled on, and we are all the poorer for it.

 

[daveman]

Is there anything that isn't causing Goebbels warming?

Third-world carbon emissions. They're perfectly safe. Mostly because the third world doesn't have any money to tax.

 

[Oddball]

^^^^
Winner, winner....Chicken dinner!

 

[skookerasbil]

WHO...........THE...............FUCK..............CARES


This is as irrelevant a thread as Ive maybe ever seen on here!!! If it effected the climate, so be it........I happen to like the fact that I speak English.


It is threads like this that make certain the conventional wisdom that far left liberals are the most dangerous people on the planet. Put them in charge of anything and its all over.

 

[flacaltenn]

I'm sure the eco-street-theatre crowd IS THRILLED at this fortunate outcome.
Afterall those Tuskeegee Syphilis tests had a useful outcome too...

 

[CrusaderFrank]

So how does CO2 affect the Jet Stream, because that's what caused the heat wave

 

[CrusaderFrank]

What no charts? Dioramas? tree rings

 

[Trakar]

So how does CO2 affect the Jet Stream, because that's what caused the heat wave

Please cite and reference who, beyond you, has stated that CO2 has directly caused the current shift of the jet stream.

 

[bobgnote]

Nuke the retards, T.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

So how does CO2 affect the Jet Stream, because that's what caused the heat wave

Please cite and reference who, beyond you, has stated that CO2 has directly caused the current shift of the jet stream.

So CO2 has no effect on the recent "Warming" because that's due to a shift in the Jet Stream.

OK, thanks that's what I thought.

 

[Douger]

Ancient Atomic Wars - Best Evidence?

 

[Douger]

Ancient Atomic Warfare - Antiguas Guerras Atmicas

 

[Trakar]

So how does CO2 affect the Jet Stream, because that's what caused the heat wave

Please cite and reference who, beyond you, has stated that CO2 has directly caused the current shift of the jet stream.

So CO2 has no effect on the recent "Warming" because that's due to a shift in the Jet Stream.

OK, thanks that's what I thought.

Disingenuous or merely sloppy? try more thinking and less politicking.

There is a wide range between saying that CO2 is not the direct causation of the shifting of the jet stream, and saying that rising CO2 levels have not played a role in current climate change.