"The US Air Force (USAF) is the single largest consumer of jet fuel in the world; the F-4 Phantom Fighter burns more than 1,600 gallons of jet fuel per hour and peaks at 14,400 gallons per hour at supersonic speeds. The B-52 Stratocruiser, with eight jet engines, guzzles 55 gallons per minute. A quarter of the world’s jet fuel feeds the USAF fleet of flying killing machines. The (US) military reports no climate change emissions to any national or international body, thanks to US arm-twisting during the 1997 negotiations of the first international accord to limit global warming emissions, George W. Bush pulled the United States out of the Kyoto Protocol, alleging it would straitjacket the US economy with too costly greenhouse emissions controls. Next, the White House began a neo-Luddite campaign against the science of climate change. In researching “The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism,” it was easier to get war casualty statistics out of the Department of Defense (DoD) than getting fuel usage data."
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H. Patricia Hynes, in “The Military Assault on Global Climate”, Truthout, September 8, 2011
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