Global Warming

[MoonWolf]

Planting forrests help! In most cases, the global warming will aim for forrests and jungles first. After I started to plant forrests in tiles that no city owned, the problem was almost eliminated for my part as the forrest could be replanted in one turn and grasslands/ plains was never touched anymore

[spy14]

Global warming has enough of an effect to make me mod the game. I wont get involved in a nuclear exchange though as the global warming goes ape (i have no idea how realistic this is, i think a nuclear winter is some sort of dust cloud )

[Blademun]

A nuclear winter is where the smoke, dust and radiation from a wide-scale nuclear war is enough to blot out the sun, or make it very dim. A similar example is when a there is a very large volcanic explosion. The dust cloud reaches into the stratosphere, where its carryed alof for hundreds, even thousands of miles, darkening the sky in its trail. Nuclear explosions easily send tons of material up into the middle-atmosphere, where it is easily spread and held alof by jet streams,ect.

It would, technically..require ALOT of bombs to make a nuclear winter happen. I would think the radiation from all those bombs would kill much faster...

[Vince278]

Originally posted by Blademun
It would, technically..require ALOT of bombs to make a nuclear winter happen. I would think the radiation from all those bombs would kill much faster...

Lets see them include death by radiation poisoning in Civ 4.

[Frank Johnson]

Ok now we need a glowing population icon.....shesh.

[Vince278]

Originally posted by Frank Johnson
Ok now we need a glowing population icon.....shesh.

Reminds me of my glow-in-the-dark "I survived Three Mile Island" t-shirt.

[Arnelos]

Originally posted by Vince278
Reminds me of my glow-in-the-dark "I survived Three Mile Island" t-shirt.

Clever

[Last Conformist]

Nah. Radioactive fallout is unlikely to cause the sort of ecological collapse that a proper nuclear winter would. Cancer rates would get horrid, true, but the real damage would be from the actual blasts (since they'd hit population centres and wipe out millions) and form any nuclear winter, which would amount to a miniature ice age.

[woody]

I handled the global warming effects by making pollution reversible. I modded the civ3.bic file so that deserts will go to jungle when they are affected by GW. This way, workers can then change the jungles back into grasslands. It's a cycle, so that the world doesn't change to all desert.

[Vince278]

I missed being able to terraform like in Civ2.