Vasco Grilo🔸 comments on Nuclear winter—Reviewing the evidence, the complexities, and my conclusions

[Vasco Grilo🔸]

Thanks for the reply!

we have a further issue in that Hiroshima led to an estimated 0.02 TG alone, meaning that seems to raise questions on if they’re calibrated correctly.

Would Los Alamos agree that is an issue? From Reisner 2019:

Of the two nuclear bombs detonated in WWII, a firestorm was reported in Hiroshima. The relatively dense wood structures (10-g/​cm² fuel loading) in Hiroshima promoted a long-lived (2 to 3 hr; Rodden et al., 1965) firestorm, but estimated BC production (0.02 Tg) over the entire firestorm and smoldering phases was similar to the estimate (0.037 Tg for one incident) produced by the no-rubble simulation in Reisner et al.

BTW, where did the estimate of 0.02 Tg come from? I did not find it in Rodden 1965 searching for “0.02”, “soot” and “carbon”.