As the rest of the article indicated, we were looking at UK bombing raids
mainly because the records were more or less deadily available.
When, where and how many bombs and what kind of targets (homes, oil dumps, etc) were hit.
It was found different kinds of things burning either temp lowered or raised
to regional temperatures slightly but statistically significantly.
This then led into soldiers setting fire to regions either as part of
an attacking force as as burned earth policy by depearting e.g. Russian
soldiers.
Again, it seems to be the case that large fires around Leningrad and Moscow
in different centuries resulted in a colder winter immediately after.
Ergo an argument that the German 6th and Napoleon partly defeated themselves
vis a vis the weather.
The web pages
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kym.massbus.org/MOSCOW>
and
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kym.massbus.org/LENINGRAD>
have some graphics of the actual (in the case of the Leningrad region) or
reconstructed (in the case of the Moscow region) at the time of the
relevant campaigns. The winter after the fires in both cases some to be
significantly colder than the prev e.g. 10 winters.
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