Washington, D.C., October 30, 2024 - A 1983 study from scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore Laboratory said that a full-scale nuclear war between the superpowers would “dramatically affect the atmosphere’s temperature, dynamic, precipitation, and chemistry,” reduce “the light reaching the surface in the Northern Hemisphere by 90% or more,” and could cause “a cooling of continental land areas by up to 30°C.”
There's a whole mini industry putting out studies "debunking" the classic nuclear winter studies, the last few years. Apparently they want to make full scale nuclear war "thinkable" again.
"uh aktually, nuclear winter isn't real stoopid" paired very nicely with "uh akutally, none of Putler's nukes work vatnik"