The Atlantic mocked for warning nuclear war would hurt climate

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If nuclear war breaks out and tens of millions die, the Atlantic has figured out who the real victim would be: the climate.

The far-left magazine owned by Apple founder Steve Jobs‘s billionaire widow Laurene Powell Jobs is drawing relentless online mockery for a 1,200-word essay by Robinson Meyer warning that if the Russian invasion of Ukraine were to spiral into a nuclear war, it “would be worse for the climate than any energy policy that Donald Trump ever proposed.”

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