From: Russell Blackford (rblackford@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 05 2003 - 19:44:12 MST
This is a peripheral query so read no further if that bothers you.
Okay, imagine a fairly full-on nuclear exchange causes a dark nuclear winter
of several months' duration. Imagine further that the global climate
thereafter tips over into something like ice-age temperatures. I'm stuck
with this scenario so I don't want debate about its plausibility.
IF it happened like this, what would the major tropical/equatorial forests
of places like Brazil look like after, say, 15-30 years? Presumably they
would die but a lot of the big trees would remain standing. What sort of new
vegetation could we expect to grow in what waa left of these jungles? It is
difficult to imagine that many of the original animals would survive but
some kind of animal life...if only the proverbial cockroaches...might
thrive. I'm not even sure of what temperatures we would get in these
regions. Presumably they would be fairly mild even if the temperate zones
were now very cold, even in summer.
Does anyone have the kind of expertise to have an informed idea on these
points?
Russell B
http://www.users.bigpond.com/russellblackford/
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