Helen Caldicott, M.D., pediatrician and internationally recognized author and lecturer, hosts a weekly, one-hour radio program titled If You Love This Planet. Produced by Jasmin WIlliams and Scott Powell. Edited by Jasmin Williams.
This week, we hear a repeat of Dr. Caldicottâs September 2011 interview with Dr. Alan Robock, Ph.D., a Distinguished Professor of Climatology in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University. Dr. Robock has published more than 300 articles on his research in the area of climate change, including more than 170 peer-reviewed papers. His areas of expertise include geoengineering, climatic effects of nuclear war, effects of volcanic eruptions on climate, regional atmosphere-hydrology modeling, and soil moisture variations. This weekâs conversation looks at the latest models of nuclear winter after a nuclear war between India and Pakistan, and how even a limited nuclear exchange would increase global warming, destroy the ozone layer, induce major food shortages and cause millions of deaths. The risk of a global nuclear holocaust and severe nuclear winter caused by a U.S./Russian nuclear exchange is also discussed.