Chapter 121: Is this considered a nuclear winter?
s: As for the joke about 30 million people starving to death, I have never denied that many people starved to death at that time, but it is definitely not as exaggerated as 30 million, and even 5 million will not happen.
Probably 3 or 4 million is the limit.
The so-called 30 million is an empty-to-empty statement that takes into account the "reduced number of newborn births".
If we use the same statistical standards, at least 10 million people "starved to death" during the Great Depression in the United States, and the tyranny of family planning has killed hundreds of millions of people.
Regarding the extremely cold weather in winter and abnormally low temperatures in spring that appeared on the European continent in 1947, the travelers did not pay much attention at first because according to the original history, Europe should have experienced climate abnormalities and cold waves in the past two years.
Unfavorable years with constant floods and droughts.
Since Europeans were able to persist in the past calmly in that world, there will be no problems if cheats are turned on today.
It wasn't until they learned about the "June blizzard" in Germany and France that Wang Qiu and the others felt that something was wrong.
They quickly collected the current disaster reports from various European countries, and then compared them with the historical meteorological data of their world, and they were shocked to discover that, This thing is really not good From Eastern Europe to Western Europe, from Southern Europe to Northern Europe, the whole of Europe seems to be entering an ice age.
Let’s not mention those who have already frozen to death.
According to the current situation, most of the agricultural production in Europe will be wiped out this year.
Only God knows how many people will starve to death.
The cause of all this seems to be very clear: the two Icelandic volcanoes that are erupting violently: Since being triggered to erupt, the two Icelandic volcanoes have been erupting from March to July.
The smoke plumes formed by the volcanic eruptions are as high as About 2030 kilometers, it goes all the way into the stratosphere, the highest layer of the atmosphere.
The resulting smoke and dust has obscured almost the entire North Atlantic, and there is still no sign of stopping.
If a volcano is compared to a burning boiler, then volcanic ash is like the smoke from a chimney.
Volcanic ash is actually tiny particles emitted by volcanoes.
They are generally light gray and fine powder, with a diameter of less than 2 mm, and some are even less than 01 mm.
The extremely high temperatures inside the volcano melt these particles into spherical shapes.
With the huge volcanic eruption force, these volcanic ash, which resembles micro-glass beads, rise to an altitude of thousands or even tens of thousands of meters and enter the stratosphere of the atmosphere.
The stratosphere is hot at the top and cold at the bottom.
The air is thin and there is very little water vapor.
Therefore, there are almost no weather changes such as thunder, rain, and wind in this layer.
The air convection is very weak.
In addition, the volcanic ash itself is very light.
Therefore, it breaks into the advection.
The layer of volcanic ash is difficult to be carried away by rain and air currents in a short period of time.
The volcanic ash ejected in this way forms a layer in the earth's atmosphere, which "covers the sky with one hand", blocking out the light and heat released by the sun to the entire earth, resulting in low temperature weather.
In addition to the large amount of volcanic ash that stays in the stratosphere for a long time, blocking part of the solar radiation, the large amount of sulfur contained in the gas emitted by the volcano is also one of the culprits that blocks solar radiation.
As a result, it is inevitable that volcanic eruptions will cause climate cooling.
However, as the volcanic ash slowly dissipates, the global climate will gradually return to normal.
However, only God knows how long this dissipation process will take.
It may be a few months or it may be decades.
Because volcanic ash takes time to flow in the atmosphere, it initially only affected the climate in nearby areas, that is, North America and Europe.
The climate impact on the rest of the world will not become apparent until next year.
But in the final analysis, all mankind will not One can escape Well, although it is not a nuclear winter directly caused by an atomic bomb, the large-scale eruption of the Icelandic volcano that is inconsistent with the historical line was originally triggered by the explosion of a large number of atomic bombs.
It must be said that this is a nuclear winter created by humans themselves. , it seems not impossible.
No matter how you analyze the cause of the disaster, Europeans this year are heading towards the abyss of destruction.
However, there is no need to dispute the cruel reality.
Initially, it was due to the extremely cold climate, which caused nearly four million people to freeze to death on the European continent, and then due to the atomic bomb explosion.
More than three million people died, and then because of the nuclear explosions that destroyed urban infrastructure, and during the unseasonal heavy snowfall in spring and summer, no less than two million people died in various places across the European continent.
Counting the series of nuclear explosions, wars, bombings and massacres that occurred in Europe at the end of last year, the number of deaths in European countries during the three wars has exceeded that of World War II.
As for the island of Great Britain, which is outside the scope of the statistics, I hope that the island’s population will not drop to the level of King Arthur’s era next year.
After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the entire island of Great Britain in the Dark Ages during King Arthur's time had a population of only about one million.
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In short, only about half a year after the outbreak of World War III, almost 40 million people died across Europe, and at least 70 million people probably died around the world.
If this situation continues, the imminent outbreak of famine and the collapse of social order will further reduce the population of Europe.
With the rapid advancement of military technology, the speed at which humans are annihilating themselves is also increasing exponentially.
"In short, it is meaningless for us to continue to discuss the cause of this disaster here.
What is more important is what to do next.
Comrade Wang Qiu, you have a way to stop the two erupting Icelandic volcanoes.
Are you going to put it out?"
In the back house of Truk Navy Shrine, Senior Sister Ma Tong used a riding crop that she found somewhere, tapping the world map hanging on the wall and said.
"Are you kidding me about extinguishing two erupting volcanoes?
Please spare me."
Wang Qiu smiled bitterly and said, "Even among Doraemon's black technology props, there is no such thing, at least not in my hand."
"Since there is no way to extinguish the volcano, what will happen if this situation continues to develop?"
"Ahem, regarding this issue, the relevant departments have asked people from the Chinese Academy of Sciences to use the latest domestically completed supercomputer to help us conduct a computer simulation.
The results of the deduction seem to be very unoptimistic."
Professor Guo pushed up his reading glasses on the bridge of his nose and coughed dryly.
At the same time, he took out a booklet filled with dense memories from his pocket, "If the two volcanoes Eyjafjallajökull and Katla in Iceland continue to erupt at the current rate, By the end of the year, the two volcanoes will have been erupted directly from their summits, ejecting at least 300 cubic kilometers of volcanic ash into the atmosphere.
Medium.
These small particles of volcanic ash have now formed a huge smoke cloud, and are continuing to expand and gradually spread over the earth.
It is expected to remain in the sky for two to five years.
Inducing several other Icelandic volcanoes to erupt will eventually cause a series of devastating disasters to the entire civilized world on earth.
First of all, the entire Iceland has been completely covered by smoke.
It has not seen the sun for several months.
Even at noon, the sky is still dark.
The entire island's land is covered with thick volcanic ash.
It is basically no longer suitable for human survival.
It is expected to end after the volcanic eruption.
After that, the island will become uninhabited again.
Secondly, the Faroe Islands, Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands, northern Scotland in the Norwegian Sea, and Greenland in the Americas have all fallen a large amount of volcanic ash, and the amount of light has dropped sharply, and the summer temperature has plummeted.
According to satellite observations, the fjords of the two main settlements in Greenland are still in a state of ice.
Residents are unable to go to sea to fish.
If they cannot receive external rescue, they will be at risk of freezing to death in the near future.
Third, the impact of this volcanic plume has been felt in many ways throughout Europe, from Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula, and across North America from the Florida Peninsula to Quebec.
Starting this summer.
Norwegians often see long-lasting dark red dusk twilight and dawn light.
In eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, there is continuous "dry fog" that cannot be dispersed by wind and rain.
The combination of all these factors has resulted in widespread low temperatures in Europe and North America this summer and extremely worrying crop growth conditions.
Coupled with the two consecutive years of extremely cold weather that would have occurred, Europe and North America will experience the coldest weather in hundreds of years next year.
The cold winter and the coolest summer.
This year’s winter in Europe has generally dropped to minus 40 degrees Celsius, and the extremely cold weather next winter will be even colder than this year.
During this period, crops in Britain, Ireland and Canada will There will be basically no harvest, and if there is no external food input, a devastating famine will break out.
Fourth, as time goes by, by this winter or next spring, the impact of the Icelandic volcanic eruption will truly expand to the entire world.
By then, the global average temperature will drop by two to five degrees Celsius.
Note that this is only the long-term average temperature.
Temperature fluctuations in short periods or in local areas will be more severe.
In many places, real June snow will appear, ushering in In a year without summer, global agricultural production will be on the verge of collapse, food output will plummet by 30% to 50%, and many countries will find it difficult to maintain basic social order.
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If it were in peaceful times, all mankind might still be able to unite and help each other to deal with this disaster.
But now we are in a life-and-death world war between the two camps.
Both sides will only do their best to interfere with and undermine their opponents' efforts to fight disasters, causing the enemy's country to be even more completely destroyed in the catastrophe."
"Tsk, tsk, this is really terrifying.
It's like the end of the world in mythology.
Isn't it too exaggerated?"
Ma Tong felt a little horrified when he heard it, and couldn't help but murmured worriedly, "The volcanic ash is filled, there is no sunlight, the global temperature is low, and the plants are dying.
It sounds like the scene when the dinosaurs became extinct.
This has already destroyed the entire biosphere.
Can the Earth bear it?
The technical conditions during World War II are not enough, but if this situation continues to develop, will the Earth really be destroyed by us humans?"
However, as a "Terminator" who has personally created several world-destroying operations, Comrade Wang Qiu is very dissatisfied with this, and even sneers at it, "This little battle is nothing, at most it is nothing we have seen before.
Yes, it’s just the disaster level of the Little Ice Age at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
If you consider that the duration is only three to five years at most, it’s not as good as the Little Ice Age at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
The harm is so great.
Even the genuine nuclear winter described in science fiction is far worse than the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.
In fact, even the meteorite impact that wiped out the dinosaurs was only five times in the history of the earth.
Among the mass extinctions of organisms, it is the one with the least damage and the least terrifying level.
Our earth is not so fragile." oshow7: