THE GREATEST THREAT TO OUR ENVIRONMENT EVAR!!1!

...is, according to some, global warming.



I am going to disprove the entire fucking theory once and for all, tonight.



No wacky scientists, no pie-in-the-sky charts, no dry recitation of factoids from a Powerpoint slide; nooo, just direct observation of reality.



Ready?



On the 15th of July, 1942, a flight group of 2 B-17 bombers and 6 P-38 Lightning fighters was flying across Greenland on their way to Iceland, when they ran into extreme cold and low visibility conditions. Now in those days, aircraft weren't the perfectly insulated bubbles of security that they are today; the flyers rapidly got cold, despite such creative efforts as turning their defrosters into the cabins. They decided to turn back, but an attempt to return to their point of origin just got them lost in the clouds, and due to rapidly dwindling fuel, they were forced to set down on the Greenland ice sheet.



That didn't go well; several of the planes crashed or were otherwise disabled upon landing, and the pilots made a makeshift camp and began trying to contact Allied forces. Suffice it to say that after several days of frozen-assedness, the pilots were rescued, but the damage to the aircraft and the difficulty of bringing repair equipment and fuel to them resulted in the planes being abandoned in place.



They took their place in history as "the Lost Squadron."



They were finally recovered in the late 1990s, from under the 268 feet of ice that had accumulated atop them in the intervening 50 years.

Yeah, read that again. OUR WORLD IS DYING FROM THE EVER RISING TEMPERATURE OMG except for Greenland, apparently, where it's been cold enough to grow almost 300 fuckin' feet of ice.





Global warming is officially horseshit. Just to let you know.