the winter of 2002 was particularly cold in the area of canada i lived in, and i rather quickly derived the hypothesis that the humongous bombs they were using in afghanistan might have had something to do with it. in hindsight, we can see there's been a decrease in warming since then. i've looked a few times for some serious studies on the topic, but have never found any.

robock points out that it's necessary to have some kind of fuel, but i think that blowing up mountains is certainly going to throw more dust into the air than blowing up a beach. further, i've seen reports that some of the bombs they were using in afghanistan and iraq were (while conventional) considerably more powerful than the smaller sized nuclear weapons.

somebody ought to see if they can draw a connection between the bombing that happened after 9/11 and the decrease in warming that followed.