Good consequences of the War in Iraq
Everywhere you hear more and more good consequences of the recent war in Iraq -- Libya handing over its weapons, Pakistan playing nicely, terrorists leaving our shores and heading to Iraq like flies to flypaper...you know the rest. In fact there must be hundreds of good things caused by the war that people just don't realise did, and certainly don't give credit to Tony and George for.No. 1 A warmer Britain
This is pretty impressive. A direct result of the Iraq war, President Bush's 'Warming World' strategy, used the energy from the munitions fired at Iraq, combined with the warm glow from the moral high ground, to increase the average daily temperature in Britain by a statistically significant 17 degrees farenheit. Obviously the Baathist insurgency from September muddies the picture, but hey, you know who to blame for that.
Date ---------- Average Daily Temperature
Before the War
Jan ---------- 39.6 F
Feb ---------- 40.3 F
Mar ---------- 43.0 F
Apr ---------- 47.7 F
After the war
May ---------- 53.8 F
Jun ---------- 59.5 F
Jul ---------- 63.0 F
Aug ---------- 62.1 F
Update: I am deeply chuffed that this post has received its very own Chris Lightfoot chart, which incidentally proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that indeed the war made it warmer.
posted by Matthew @ 3/04/2004 04:57:00 PM
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