Word: toukan
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There is not much support, however, for the contention of a few scientists, including the astronomer Carl Sagan and Abdullah Toukan, science adviser to Jordan's King Hussein, that oil-field fires could bring on a nuclear winter, affecting weather patterns all around the world with devastating effects on agriculture. Nuclear blasts and volcanoes can send smoke exploding 16 km or more into the upper atmosphere, enabling it to travel long distances around the globe; but the worst oil-field inferno would probably lack the upward thrust to send smoke even one-tenth as high into the air before...