Garbled Science:

The left-wing rabble were out in force with their bullhorns in Montreal and Washington Saturday protesting Donald Trump's scrutiny of the junk science behind global warming and climate change.

Bellowing loudly, their megaphoned cheer leaders' message was, How could that dastardly Trump possibly disregard the importance of science?

That's a deliberate misdirection aimed at children and the woefully underinformed. It's not about science at all. It is clearly about scientists and politicians--scientists who have been corrupted by politics and politicians with agendas in charge of issuing lucrative research grants.

Now that it is possible to view weather systems, glaciers and polar ice from space, some scientists take the opportunity to launch all kinds of scary theories. These include weather, climate, ozone holes, ice shelves, polar bears and almost anything else that will get them quick media attention. 

Clearly, technological evolution makes it easy for people so inclined to promote cynical climate-based political agendas for reasons we can only guess at. Maybe Al Gore can tell us more.

It is easy to speculate that access to generous scientific research grants has probably been made selectively available to scientists whose morals can be bent by politicians with schemes to easily extract more tax money from the electorate.

Look what the Green Energy propaganda did to Ontario. 

Science has become corrupted by politics.

The bottom line is that the current US administration is not declaring war on science, only on corrupt scientific/political relationships.

For the moment, let us just view this as an important part of Trump's Draining the Swamp initiative.

MOAB:

The US weapons specialists described their Mother Of All Bombs dropped on a terrorist infestation site Thursday as the biggest such non-nuclear weapon ever used in battle.

Not quite. Actually, it is 1000 lb lighter than the GRAND SLAM developed by British demolition specialist Barnes Wallis in the course of WWII. Wallis calculated that's how much explosive power was needed to crumble the heavily reinforced Nazi submarine pens along the coast in occupied France and in Hamburg.

It worked, too. The Grand Slam, delivered by British Lancaster Bombers, punched enough holes in those submarine pens to prevent the successful launch of Germany's state-of-the-art Type XXI submarine. This U-boat was so advanced that the first nuclear subs deployed by the allies a couple of decades later incorporated many of its features.

The Grand Slam was an evolution of Barnes Wallis's Tallboy bomb that preceded it, but was found to be inadequate for the really destructive blast needed to demolish the heavily reinforced concrete.

Wallis was perhaps better known for the bouncing bombs used by the Dambusters to  take out the Ruhr's extensive hydro complex powering Hitler's weapons industry deep within Germany.

And there's a Canadian connection here, too. Cmdr Jean Luc Fauquier took over the Dambusters squadron from Guy Gibson, its young leader, when he retired for medical reasons. Fauquier led the squadron on the heavy bomber sorties that followed, directing the drops from his speedy and agile Mosqito Pathfinder.

Smart Bomb technology was not yet a factor, so the Allies used Pathfinders in fast little Mosquito aircraft to get down low over the drop zone, locate the target and drop colored flares to mark the spot for the heavy bombers to zero in on. The modern MOAB is equipped with parachute, tail vanes with movable slats to correct descent to the target. No Pathfinder required.

Fauquier was a Canadian bush pilot before he joined the RCAF at the start of the war. He was a fellow Mississaugan, living on Broadmoor Ave at the time I interviewed him in '67.

One of his favorite targets was Hamburg, the site of some of those submarine pens. He said he had an awkward moment when, on a business trip in the years following the war, a German customer asked him if he'd ever been to Hamburg.

Another favorite target was Peenemunde where Werner Von Braun was building long-range V2 rockets for Hitler.

At the time of the interview, Fauquier was in the concrete business. He said he probably supplied more concrete in the Toronto area over the post war years than his Lancaster squadrons had demolished in Germany.

Note: Fauquier earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, The Distinguished Service Order and bars for both awards, all well deserved for his contribution to a successful end to the war.