Nuclear Winter with Ann Druyan and Brian Toon
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Smoke in the Stratosphere
If you put stuff in the stratosphere, there's no rain there, so it's not washed out quickly. And the stuff stays in the upper atmosphere for years before it's finally removed. We've also seen this happen twice in the last two years. Never have we seen this before,. But in 20 17, there was a fire in british columbia, but smoke in the stratusphere. We could see that from lights for more than a year. The sun heated it, made it warm, and it rose to high altitude, 20 or 30 kilometers. Choking here, anis notfor somers aw. Doesn't pollute washington d c,
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