Churchill always claimed that the UK just couldn't spare the shipping needed to help feed the starving millions in British Bengal in 1943.
But it turns out that what Bengal's would-be rescue ships were really needed for was to bring the millions and millions of gallons of overseas petroleum to the UK, to feed the FIDO systems set up around British airfields beginning in 1943.
Burning petroleum at a rate as high as one to two hundred thousand gallons of fuel per hour, per airfield, was used to create an artificial climate above the airfields - literally burning off the ever-present British fog so bombers could take off and land in all kinds of weather, night or day.
Showing posts with label global warming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label global warming. Show all posts
Friday, April 19, 2013
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
PQ posts SMALLEST PLURALITY EVER for a full-slate Canadian government
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
1939 & 2039 : does the first world CATASTROPE hold useful lessons for the second ?
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Monday, August 13, 2012
Newspapers report Global Warming like they did the Holocaust : urge caution, await further confirmation
Saturday, August 11, 2012
"DR STRANGELOVE" of the global-warming-Jewish-flouridation-vaccination-9/11-conspiracy-plot is long overdue
Saturday, August 4, 2012
QUEER-BASHING and CLIMATE DENIAL : related ?
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Film review : "WILD BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD" a must-see global warming parable
Could Quvenzhane Wallis, only six at the time of the film shooting, become the youngest person ever to win an Academy Award as best actress, for her starring roles as Hushpuppy in the new indie film, "Wild Beasts of the Southern Wild" ?
Monday, June 25, 2012
Sun-hegemony in a post-hegemonic world
It is a very very brave - and rare - reader of the TORONTO SUN who publicly dares to define the group hegemony among its readers.
But recently, 6% of those readers defied the SUN Hegemony that there is no change in the Climate.
But recently, 6% of those readers defied the SUN Hegemony that there is no change in the Climate.
Monday, June 18, 2012
The Who, What, Where, When of Climate Change I leave to others : I seek the "Why"
The Climate Wars are but the latest skirmish in an old, old war.
But with the stakes never higher, righteous anger fills both sides, each convinced that the other will lead their planet to rack and ruin.
I am Canadian, but I hate hockey and you will certainly see no climate hockey sticks here - nor any other peer-reviewed science either.
But with the stakes never higher, righteous anger fills both sides, each convinced that the other will lead their planet to rack and ruin.
I am Canadian, but I hate hockey and you will certainly see no climate hockey sticks here - nor any other peer-reviewed science either.
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Coming soon : "OFF-PLANETTING" the 99%'s jobs to Martian robots ...
Let's pretend it all began in 1870.
Some uppity bunch of employees in New England's pioneering factory mill system now want a fairer share of the money rolling in - as does the town and the state legislators.
Farmers downstream from the mill complain that the river water is now making their cows sick and want something done about it.
In a soon-to-be-classic gambit, the mill owners first deny everything - the existence of profits or pollution.
Some uppity bunch of employees in New England's pioneering factory mill system now want a fairer share of the money rolling in - as does the town and the state legislators.
Farmers downstream from the mill complain that the river water is now making their cows sick and want something done about it.
In a soon-to-be-classic gambit, the mill owners first deny everything - the existence of profits or pollution.
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