Hulleye Comes By!

yay. someone left me a new comment on my serious poll. it’s still active in case anyone is wondering. and people are still looking it up and going to it. if you haven’t seen it before then here you go, a very serious poll for you to fill out. with almost five hundred votes now on the poll, it’s somewhwat a bit more reflective of what a survey should be like. if you haven’t seen it before, link to it and spread the word, let’s try and get everyone’s opinion on it.

A limited nuclear weapons exchange between Pakistan and India using their current arsenals could create a near-global ozone hole, triggering human health problems and wreaking environmental havoc for at least a decade, according to a study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The computer-modeling study showed a nuclear war between the two countries involving 50 Hiroshima-sized nuclear devices on each side would cause massive urban fires and loft as much as 5 million metric tons of soot about 50 miles into the stratosphere, said CU-Boulder Research Associate Michael Mills, chief study author. The soot would absorb enough solar radiation to heat surrounding gases, setting in motion a series of chemical reactions that would break down the stratospheric ozone layer protecting Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation, said Mills.

“We would see a dramatic drop in ozone levels that would persist for many years,” said Mills of CU-Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. “At mid- latitudes the ozone decrease would be up to 40 percent, which could have huge effects on human health and on terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems.”