The war in Ukraine is contributing to global warming!

The war in Ukraine, totally the responsibility of Vladimir Putin, is a war of killing and destruction and more killing and destruction. But it is also helping the devastation of the planet's climate. It's one of the many additional hugely negative consequences of the Russian invasion on February 24 last year. Politico magazine in the US has written a brilliant article on how a Dutch carbon expert has attempted to calculate the damage done to the environment by the daily dose of cruise msisiles and artillery shells and burning buildings. Putin is never going to stop the war to save the planet's climate but it's an invaluable exercise to demonstrate how many other negative consequences there are to a war. Any war. Apparently in the first seven months of the war, at least 100 million metric tons of carbon emissions were launched into the atmosphere. And the war has been going on now for about 18 months. So the emissions figure can be more than doubled. In another report published by Oilchange International in 2008 it was estimated that 141 million tons of carbon dioxide were released into the atmosphere as a result of the war in Iraq between 2003 and 2008. That was said to be the equivalent of putting 25 million more cars on the road in the US. The US spent more in one year on the war in Iraq than the whole world spent on investing in renewable energy. So despite all the attempts to tackle the rapidly increasing global warming crisis, Putin's war in Ukraine is now making sure that as we take one step forward to meet the climate crisis, the poor planet is taking two steps back. **Order my new spy thriller, Shadow Lives, from Amazon.