Funny!

One technical note: Could you talk about the concept of C02e (mentioned in the second quote) a little? I have read about it in the context of cap-and-trade programs, but I'm not sure I understand how today's CO2 ppm concentrations translate into CO2equivalent.

One other technical note - it is the government of Britain, not just England! I note this as a proud Scot (it may seem irrelevant to many, but is quite important to the Scots, Northern Irish and Welsh).

Actually, Dano, Coby Beck originally says "British government."

Here is a cute, moving paragraph by Niall Ferguson, in the New York Review of Books, November 30, p. 28, in connexion with the miserable British withdrawal from the continent at Dunkirk:
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As in World War I, it was often the Scottish Highland regiments -- among them the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, the last battalion to wear their kilts in combat -- who got the dirtiest jobs and fought the hardest.  In the roll of honor, pride of place belongs to the 51st Highland Division, whose hard lot it was not to be evacuated but "at all costs" to keep fighting the Germans in the area south of the Somme.  Only when completely surrounded at Saint-Vale'ry-en-Caux did their commander give the order to "hoist that bloody [white] flag on the church tower."  Even then, some of his men were loath to stop shooting.  "Not fucking likely, you yellow bastard!" was the furious reaction of one soldier when ordered to lay down his arms by an officer of the Kensington Regiment.  Evidence like this makes me almost believe the apocryphal story about the two Highlanders watching the evacuation of the beaches at Dunkirk.  "Aye, Jock," says one to the other, "if the English surrender, it'll be a long war."
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