I don't think we had either climate models or remote sensing capabilities during World War II adequate to assess what climate effects may have resulted from the

I don't think we had either climate models or remote sensing capabilities during World War II adequate to assess what climate effects may have resulted from the several firestorms that occurred. The 1991 Kuwait oil fires were apparently projected by some to cause a "petroleum winter", but these models were disputed and many simulations apparently suggested that the particles would not reach the stratosphere (and evidently they did not)[0]. However, it seems that since 1998[1] it has been known that smoke from naturally occurring firestorms (resulting from wildfires) can reach the stratosphere and cause regional climate effects significant enough to alter hemispheric temperature patterns. [0] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-011-1685-5_3 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-011-1685-... [1] http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006AGUFM.U14A..04F http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006AGUFM.U14A..04F