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THE STATE OF GEOENGINEERING SOLUTIONS FOR GLOBAL WARMING

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

THE FIRST KEY SEA BATTLE OF WORLD WAR II WAS FOUGHT IN THE CORAL SEA

  The Seabourn Odyssey left Cairns and is headed for New Caledonia. The Battle of the Coral Sea  occurred between 4 and 8 of May 1942, five months after Pearl Harbor.   Japan vs the USA and Australia.   First aircraft carrier battle ever fought. All the fighting, however, were carried out by airplanes from those ships. This was the first time in WWII that Japan experienced failure in a major battle. This was the victory that saved Australia, for Japan was advancing towards Australia. The U.S. knew more than the Japanese suspected, for America had broken the Japanese secret naval codes.  The strategy was to sink carriers, for that would destroy the plane runway.  The problem was that each was protected by a screen of cruisers and destroyers. The Japanese were led by Admiral Shigeyoshi Inoue, with Admiral Frank Fletcher in American command. The final truth is that this was actually a tactical victory for Japan, as the American USS Lexington carrier was scuttled and USS Yorktown damaged.