all current ‘active’ US-Russian weapons Scenario 3 (Brown) – ‘global-high’ nuclear war, e.g. [...] mid-2000s weapons level • 3 nuclear war scenarios and the resultant ‘global cooling’ 1. [...] 150 Mt of black carbon • Even a ‘regional’ nuclear war (scenario 1) could cause massive crop loses leading to a global famine affecting 2 billion people (1/4 of world population) – IPPNW (2013) • From research led by Prof Alan Robock, Rutgers University, USA, published in 2007 • Blue line is measured global temperature change 1880‐2006 (relative to 1951‐ 1980 average level) • For UK nuclear scen. [...] 14 Government military spending v climate spending, 2022 2500 • Huge climate spending shortfall 2000 between current levels and those 1500 needed to hit 1.5C target • Private spending 1000 on climate action is not shown 500 0 Global military Global climate Global climate spending spending shortfall spending SIPRI (2023); CPI (2023) • Data from: SIPRI (2023); Climate Policy Initiative (2023. [...] Nuclear weapons abolition • SGR’s suggestions [image credit: Escif ‐ ‐116160785113488/ ] 19 References (p1) BBC News (2022). UK defies climate warnings with new oil and gas licences. ‐environment‐63163824 BEIS (2022). ‐territorial‐greenhouse‐gas‐emissions‐national‐statistics Climate Action T.
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