Great time travel

Chapter 121: Is this a nuclear winter?

PS: Regarding the joke about starving to death of 3000 million people, I have never denied that many people starved to death at that time, but it is definitely not as exaggerated as 3000 million.The so-called 500 million is an air-to-air statement that counts the "decrease in newborn births".According to the same statistical standard, at least 400 million people died of starvation during the Great Depression in the United States, and the tyranny of family planning has killed hundreds of millions of people.

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The travelers did not pay much attention to the extremely cold winter weather and abnormally low temperature in spring that appeared on the European continent in [-]—because according to the original history, Europe in the past two years should have experienced abnormal climate and cold waves. Invasions, floods and droughts continue to be unlucky years.Since Europeans can persist in the past calmly in that world, there will be no problems now that the plug-in is enabled.

It wasn't until they heard the news about the "June Snowfall" in Germany and France that Wang Qiu and the others felt that something was wrong. They hurriedly collected the current disaster reports from European countries, and compared the historical weather data of their world, only to find out that This matter... is really very bad!

From Eastern Europe to Western Europe, from Southern Europe to Northern Europe, the whole of Europe seems to be entering the Ice Age, not to mention those who have frozen to death, according to the current situation, most of the agricultural production in Europe will be wiped out this year!How many people will starve to death by then, really only God knows.

The reason for all this seems to be very clear: it is the two Icelandic volcanoes that are erupting violently: since they were triggered to erupt, the two Icelandic volcanoes have erupted from March to July, and the smoke columns formed by the eruptions are as high as About 20 to 30 kilometers, has been into the highest layer of the atmosphere - the stratosphere.The resulting smoke and dust almost covered the entire North Atlantic Ocean, and there is still no sign of stopping.

——If a volcano is likened to a burning boiler, then volcanic ash is like the smoke in a chimney.Volcanic ash is actually tiny particles emitted by volcanoes, generally in light gray, fine powder form, with a diameter of less than 2 mm, and some even less than 0.1 mm.Extremely high temperatures inside the volcano melted these particles into spherical shapes.With the huge volcanic eruption force, these volcanic ash, which resembles tiny glass beads, rise to an altitude of thousands of meters or even tens of thousands of meters and enter the stratosphere of the atmosphere.However, the upper part of the stratosphere is hot and the lower part is cold, 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. The layer of volcanic ash is difficult to be carried away by rainwater and air currents in a short period of time.The volcanic ash erupted in this way forms a layer in the earth's atmosphere, which "covers the sky with one hand", blocking the light and heat released by the sun to the entire earth, resulting in low temperature weather.In addition to a large amount of volcanic ash staying in the atmospheric 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 hinder the solar radiation.

In this way, it is inevitable that the volcanic eruption will cause the climate to cool down.However, as the volcanic ash dissipates slowly, the global climate will gradually return to normal-however, how long this dissipation process will take, only God knows, it may be months, or it may be decades.

Because volcanic ash takes time to flow in the atmosphere, it only affects the climate in nearby regions, that is, North America and Europe at first, while the climate impact on the rest of the world will not be apparent until next year-but in the final analysis, the whole world No human being can escape!
Well, although it is not a nuclear winter that was directly blown out by the atomic bomb, the large-scale eruption of the Icelandic volcano that does not match the historical line was originally triggered by a large number of atomic bomb explosions. It must be said that this is a nuclear winter created by human beings. , it seems that it is not impossible.

No matter how the cause of the disaster is analyzed, this year’s Europeans are heading towards the abyss of destruction, but it is an undisputed cruel reality—first because of the extremely cold climate, which caused nearly 400 million people to freeze to death on the European continent, and then because of the atomic bomb More than 300 million people died in the explosion, and then because of the nuclear explosion destroyed the urban infrastructure, and in the unseasonable heavy snowfall in spring and summer, no less than 200 million people died all over 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 in the three wars has exceeded that in the second world war.As for the island of Great Britain, which is outside the statistical range... I hope that the population of the island 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 age (the era of King Arthur) had a population of only about 100 million.

In short, only about half a year after the outbreak of World War III, almost 4000 million people died in Europe, and at least 7000 million people died in the world.According to the development of this situation, the imminent outbreak of catastrophic 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 human beings destroy themselves is also showing an exponential increase.

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"...All in all, it is meaningless for us to continue to chatter about the cause of this disaster. What is more important is what to do next? Comrade Wang Qiu, you have a way to put those two erupting Has the volcano in Iceland been extinguished?"

In the back house of the Truk Naval Shrine, senior sister Ma Tong tapped on the world map hanging on the wall with a horsewhip she found somewhere.

"...Extinguish two erupting volcanoes?! Are you kidding? Spare me!"

Wang Qiu smiled bitterly, "...Even among Doraemon's black technology props, there is no such thing - at least I don't have it in my hand."

"...Since there is no way to extinguish the volcano...then, what will happen if this situation continues?"

"...Ahem, regarding this issue, the relevant departments have asked the people of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to use the latest supercomputer in China to help us do a computer simulation. The deduced results seem to be very pessimistic..."

Professor Guo pushed the presbyopic glasses on the bridge of his nose, coughed and replied, and at the same time took out a booklet that he remembered densely from his pocket, "...if the two volcanoes Eyjafjallah and Katla in Iceland, at the current speed If the eruption continues until the end of the year, the two volcanoes will be "ejected off the top of the mountain" directly, and at least [-] cubic kilometers of volcanic ash will be ejected into the atmosphere. These small particles of volcanic ash have now formed a huge cloud of smoke, and It is still expanding and gradually spreading over the earth. It is expected to stay in the air for two to five years. It may even induce several other Icelandic volcanoes to erupt, which will eventually affect the entire civilized world of the earth. Cause a series of devastating disaster consequences.

First of all, the whole of Iceland has been completely covered by smog, and the sun has not been seen for several months. Even the sky at noon is still dark, and the whole island is covered with thick volcanic ash, which is basically no longer suitable for human survival. Afterwards, the island will become uninhabited again.

Secondly, the Faroe Islands, Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands, northern Scotland, and Greenland in the American direction all fell a large amount of volcanic ash, and the amount of sunlight decreased sharply, and the temperature in summer dropped sharply.According to satellite observations, the fjords of the two main settlements on Greenland are still frozen so far, and residents cannot go out to sea to fish. If they cannot get outside rescue, they will be at risk of freezing to death in the near future.

Third, the effects of this volcanic cloud have been felt in many ways across Europe from Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula, and across North America from the Florida Peninsula to Quebec.Start this summer.Norwegians can often see long-lasting dark red evening twilight and dawn morning light.In eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, there has been a persistent "dry fog" that cannot be dispelled by wind and rain.

The combination of all these factors has made Europe and North America generally low temperature this summer, and the growth of crops is extremely worrying. Coupled with the two consecutive years of extremely cold weather that would have occurred in the first place, Europe and North America will usher in the worst weather in hundreds of years next year. Cold winter, and the coolest summer - the winter in Europe this year has generally dropped to minus [-] degrees Celsius, and the extremely cold weather in next winter will be even colder than this year!During this period, the crops in Britain, Ireland and Canada will basically fail, and if there is no import of foreign food, a devastating famine will break out.

Fourth, as time goes on, by this winter or next spring, the scope of impact of the Icelandic volcanic eruption will truly expand to the whole world.At that time, the global average temperature will drop by two degrees Celsius to five degrees Celsius - note that this is only the long-term average temperature, and the temperature fluctuations in short-term or local areas will be more severe, and real June snow will appear in many places. Ushering in a 'year without summer'... Global agricultural production will be on the verge of collapse, food production will plummet by [-]% to half, and many countries will find it difficult to maintain basic social order.

If it is in a peaceful age, all mankind may be able to unite and help each other to deal with this disaster together.But now it is due to the two camps fighting to the death during the world war, both sides will only try their best to interfere and destroy the opponent's disaster relief efforts, so that the enemy's country will be destroyed more thoroughly in the catastrophe..."

"... Tsk tsk, this is really... too scary, like the end of the world in the myth! Is it too exaggerated?"

Ma Tong was a little horrified, and couldn't help muttering in a low voice worriedly, "...the volcanic ash is everywhere, there is no sunlight, the global temperature is low, and the plants are dying... It sounds like the scene when the dinosaurs were extinct-this destructive It’s already the entire biosphere! Is our earth bearable? The technical conditions of the World War II era are not enough, but if this situation continues, will the earth really be destroyed by us humans?”

However, as the "Terminator" who has personally created several major actions to destroy the world, Comrade Wang Qiu is very disapproving of this, and even sneered, "... What is this little battle? At most it is us As I have seen before, the level of disasters in the Little Ice Age at the end of the Ming Dynasty was nothing more than the level of disasters. If you consider that the duration is only three to five years at most, it is not as harmful as the Little Ice Age at the end of the Ming Dynasty! Even the "genuine" nuclear weapons in the description of science fiction In winter, it is far worse than the mass extinction of the dinosaurs! Even, even the meteorite impact of the extinction of the dinosaurs is only the slightest damage among the five mass extinctions in the history of the earth. It's just the last one... Our earth is not so fragile!"