This is April 1 where I am.  The following are not April Fool jokes: Donald Trump got indicted. Finland joins NATO, or at least will in a few days . The Seabourn Odyssey has a COVID-19 outbreak. You can read about the other two, but last night the ship's captain made a startling announcement.  There is a covid outbreak and beginning tomorrow, all staff will be wearing masks.  He advised passengers to also do this when indoors. In June of 2021 we took a Norwegian cruise through Hawaii, and three months ago were on Regent Seven Seas from Dubai to Singapore.  We suspected there was this virus on board, but everything was kept hush hush. We've been noticing orange colored bags outside of cabins, and already suspected something was wrong.  There are five on our floor.  Sort of reminded me of 15 Craigside, which placed scary signs on the door of those quarantined.  Our retirement community finally got hit with this coronavirus one month before we were scheduled to leave for Sydney.  

From  Worldometer  (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):           DAY    USA    WORLD      Brazil      India      South Africa 2020 June     9     1093     4732         1185        246       82 July    22      1205     7128         1293      1120     572 Aug    12      1504     6556        1242        835     130 Sept     9      1208      6222       1136       1168       82 Oct     21      1225      6849         571        703       85 Nov    25       2304    12025        620        518      118 Dec     30       3880    14748       1224       299      465 2021 Jan      14       4142      15512       1151         189     712 Feb      3       4005    14265       1209       107      398 Mar      2       1989     9490        1726       110      194 April     6        906    11787         4211       631       37 May     4        853     13667        3025      3786     59   June    1        287    10637         2346      3205      95  July    7         251      8440        1595        817     

Today, for sci-tech day, I reach back to three postings on geoengineering solutions for climate warming.  Here is a quick history of this field. I was working in the U.S. Senate from 1979 to 1982, and global warming was not at all an issue. It took another decade for scientists to come to a conclusion that all those fossil fuel emissions are beginning to affect our climate. In the early 90's I led a national effort to include some thinking about solutions to remediate the Greenhouse Gas effect, in addition to all the necessary monitoring and modeling work that was ongoing. So the following postings provide some details of my involvement. An early one was on 23September 11, where I was serializing  SIMPLE SOLUTION ESSAYS , with a particular focus on Geoengineering of Climate Change. This particular book drew together some of my  Huffington Post  articles. The notion of geoengineering at a global scale scares most.  Their argument is, we have so screwed up our planet that to entrust