The problem of unexploded ordnance is a big one, right? But, see, this is a cult, so, they have to glom on to every problem and subordinate it to the doomsday movement
How unexploded bombs cause environmental damage – and why climate change exacerbates the problem
There are a record number of conflicts raging around the world – from Ukraine and Gaza to Sudan and Myanmar. Alongside their devastating human toll, these conflicts are all wreaking havoc on the environment.
One of the key ways war leads to environmental harm is by leaving behind unexploded weaponry. Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine has become the most landmine-contaminated country in the world. By January 2024, roughly 25,000 sq km of agricultural land there was estimated to have been contaminated with landmines and other so-called explosive remnants of war.
The contamination of Ukrainian farmland – alongside the physical damage from exploded mines – has contributed to a sharp decrease in agricultural activity, with wheat production in Ukraine falling by 41% between 2021 and the end of 2024. Ukraine has historically been one of the world’s largest agricultural exporters. (Note: I’ve left a ton of their links out in the excerpts)
I mean, OK, seems as if the ordnance is a bit of a danger to humans and wildlife, but, I guess you can kinda see an issue with the environment
The damage wars are causing to land is also occurring at a time when climate change is driving land degradation. Rising temperatures, increased aridity and the intensification of extreme weather events are leading to reduced soil fertility and desertification. This often compounds the impact of unexploded mines and bombs on the land.
That seems a stretch (but, then, that’s what they do)
Climate hazards such as droughts, floods and wildfires can exacerbate the impact of explosive remnants of war. Floods and heavy rainfall can unearth landmines and other unexploded ordnance, sometimes displacing them into areas previously considered safe.
You mean the weather?
High temperatures from heatwaves can also cause abandoned munitions to explode. Six different munition sites exploded across Iraq during scorching hot summers in 2018 and 2019, when temperatures regularly topped 45°C. Heatwaves were blamed for a similar arms dump explosion in Jordan in 2020.
Yup, weather. In a desert region.
At the same time, the presence of explosive remnants in the environment can hamper responses to climate events. In eastern Ukraine, for example, the heavy contamination of forests with landmines and tripwires prevented fire crews from responding effectively to wildfires in 2020. The fires damaged houses and killed seven people.
Wait, wildfires in a war-torn region? That’s ‘climate change’? Piss off. This kind of crap goes on for many more paragraphs, as written by doomsday cultists.
45ºC = 113ºF.
https://timlynch.substack.com/p/the-climate-alarmism-grift-is-dying?triedRedirect=true
Time for the Ice Extent report fellow climatologists
Sept is the time of maximum Sea ice in the Antarctic. It is the 3rd lowest since satellites have been used
Sept is also the time of least sea ice in the Arctic.this year it will be the -7th lowest in 50 years of accurate record keeping
The sea ice does seem to be obeying the climate hysterics and not the climate change deniers
Are you sure, Johnny-hairy-smith?
2007-Nobel Prize winner Al Gore: “scientists say the Arctic will be ice-free by 2013..”
Is that obeying the climate change hysterics”?
The rate of Arctic sea ice extent has slowed in the past 20 years, with no statistically significant decline in its extent since 2005. https://x.com/matthewwielicki/status/1958279077020004580?s=61&t=yboaCJNGtjD0NX21peiMhw
I agree that wartime activities are terrible for the environment. The burning of propellants and explosives pollute the air while ground explosions pollute the soil and water. All those ships sunk in the Black sea as well as the destruction of the Nordstream pipeline have all had environmental consequences that the grant defenders of the planet seem to be silent and incurious about.
It was amusing watching the Biden Administration dumping billions of dollars worth of munitions onto Ukraine without a word mentioned about the environmental impact USING those munitions would have. The worst is the use of depleted uranium (DU) tank rounds which poisoned Ukraine’s renowned breadbasket with toxins that can never be removed. It was as if the people in the Biden administration didn’t really care about the environment, and never really did. It was just a rented horse to get them to the next town. We also dumped nearly our entire stockpile of scaterable mines and cluster munitions. Those same munitions the Obama administration declared were too inhumane for us to use to defend ourselves… but just dandy for the Ukrainians to use IN UKRAINE against the Russians. No word mentioned about the future Ukrainian children who will be blown up discovering those submunitions. There will be lots and lots of detritus of war remaining after this war and most of it will have come from the USA Biden administration, not from Trump cutting climate payoffs to Democratic party lackeys.
What the Biden administration has done to Ukraine is a war crime and those who decided to do that should be punished. It wasn’t just something that happened. It wasn’t an “unprovoked attack by Russia”. It was deliberate policy by Clinton, the hand in the Biden sock puppet (whoever that was), and Neocons to weaken Russia. If you want to add “crimes against the Earth” to the list of charges, go right ahead but let’s not kid ourselves. Democrats are above the law and will never be held accountable. They can literally murder over 2 million people and get away with it.