By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
The First World War was made more bloody by a “once-in-a-century” climate crisis which rained death on Europe, a study has found.
Many of the 700,000 British lives lost in the conflict ended in the “liquid grave” of mud-choked battlefields, and the desolation of places like Passchendaele have become part of the imagery of the First World War.
Even on the Turkish coast at Gallipoli troops were immobilised and killed by appalling weather, drowning in their trenches and succumbing to exposure and pneumonia, as well as enemy bullets.
Using laser technology to examine glacial ice, Harvard and Climate Change Institute (CCI) analysts have discovered that Tommies fighting the world’s first global conflict also endured a freakish “climate anomaly” which “substantially” increased casualties.
The relentless rain which flooded battlefields like the Somme and inflicted famine on civilians was swept over from the Atlantic in…
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