The yearlong discussion about the potential closing and subsequent repurposing of an elementary school or two in Lakewood has ...

Alan Robock is Professor of Meteorology and Associate Director of the Center for Environmental Prediction in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University. Please wait, fetching the ...

Ira Helfand and Alan Robock say the reduction in U.S. and Russian nuclear arms proposed by President Obama is a good step, but we can still obliterate ourselves.

In 2010, I had written about the reason why Alan Robock and Brian Toons 2007 paper was wrong that an India and Pakistan nuclear war would trigger a nuclear winter and mass famine. Everyone knows that ...

Robock said they also assumed winds that blew too strong and ran their simulation for too short a time. “They had a number of assumptions, all of which made the effects much less,” he said.

The result would be a massive famine, as the ocean’s food chain collapsed and global crops failed. In most scenarios, hunger would spread around much of the globe and kill hundreds of millions of ...

Worry has focused on the U.S. versus Russia, but a regional nuclear war between India and Pakistan could blot out the sun, starving much of the human race ...

ROBOCK: Well, I’m getting to them, but–and Israel. China, U.K., and France have about 200 weapons each. Israel has 100–but we don’t know how many Israel has. But they chose to stop at 200.

Robock started working with Jessica Gurevitch, an ecologist at Stony Brook University, after they realized that almost no work had been done on the ecological impact of geoengineering.

Ira talks with another pioneer in nuclear winter research, Dr. Alan Robock, a climate scientist and distinguished professor at Rutgers University, about the science of nuclear winter, how fear of ...

This has not yet been developed, though, Horton and Robock said. "The technology does not exist," Robock said. "There is no mechanism to get sulfur gases into the stratosphere.