Alan Robock on Nuclear Winter, Famine, and Geoengineering
Future of Life Institute Podcast
English - October 20, 2022 08:45 - 41 minutes - 56.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Alan Robock joins us to discuss nuclear winter, famine and geoengineering.
Learn more about Alan's work: http://people.envsci.rutgers.edu/robock/
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:45 What is nuclear winter?
06:27 A nuclear war between India and Pakistan
09:16 Targets in a nuclear war
11:08 Why does the world have so many nuclear weapons?
19:28 Societal collapse in a nuclear winter
22:45 Should we prepare for a nuclear winter?
28:13 Skepticism about nuclear winter
35:16 Unanswered questions about nuclear winter