Later when Operation Desert Storm had begun , Dr. S. Fred Singer and Carl Sagan discussed the possible environmental impacts of the Kuwaiti petroleum fires on the ABC News program '' Nightline '' . Sagan again argued that some of the effects of the smoke could be similar to the effects of a nuclear winter , with smoke lofting into the stratosphere , a region of the atmosphere beginning around above sea level at Kuwait , resulting in global effects and that he believed the net effects would be very similar to the explosion of the Indonesian volcano Tambora in 1815 , which resulted in the year 1816 being known as the '' Year Without a Summer ''
Year Without a Summer
Year Without a Summer
Kuwaiti oil fires