Nukes: The anti-global warming device

Get your gas guzzler out of storage, turn up your furnace, and save the cows, folks, because a regional nuclear war will solve that vexing problem of global warming.

Some of the scientists who first advanced the controversial "nuclear winter" theory more than two decades ago have come up with another bleak forecast: Even a regional nuclear war would devastate the environment.

Using modern climate and population models, researchers estimated that a small-scale nuclear conflict between two warring nations would cause 3 million to 17 million immediate casualties and lead to a marked cooldown of the planet that could lead to crop failures and further misery.

As dire as the predictions seem, they fall short of nuclear winter. That theory says that smoke and dust from an atomic war between the superpowers would blot out the sun, plunge the Earth into the deep freeze and cause mass starvation, wiping out 90 percent of the Earth's population, or billions of people.

Let me get this straight...if there is a small nuclear war somewhere on the planet, the planet will get cooler? And in this day of global warming hyperventilation, that's bad? So if I am to understand this correctly, the globe must always stay the same temperature, year after year after year. Yeah, that's likely.