Later that year the astronomer Carl Sagan conjured an even worse environmental disaster: nuclear winter. The vast amount of soot produced by burning cities would circle the earth after a nuclear exchange, block the sun, and precipitate a new ice age.
This might be exactly what we need to survive global warming!
I had a car once that had a leaky water pump. It put out the fire caused by the electrical short before it got to the leaky fuel line.
