Edmund Storms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It took Pearl Harbor to get us into the war even though it was obvious that > our ships were being sunk in the Atlantic and Europe was being ravaged.
Well, the U.S. began serious preparations before that, in 1939 and 1940, including the first peacetime draft and a massive increase in arms production. We could never have won the war otherwise. It was a lot closer than people realize. If the Normandy invasion had failed, I expect the Germans would still control most of Europe, although they might have moderated their barbarism by now. > I predict it will take enough ocean rise to destroy a major city in the US to > create a response equal to WW-II. I agree. By then, it will be too late to reverse > the process no matter how hard we try. We will be spending our attention on > building dikes and moving populations instead of stopping CO2 release. Not necessarily. We have far more resources than we realize; we could easily build dikes and at the same time take steps to drastically reduce CO2, and also to remove existing CO2 from the atmosphere. Furthermore, we could reduce the amount of sunlight that reaches the earth with various techniques discussed in the latest issue of Scientific American, including the orbiting parasols I have discussed here. All of these steps would be far easier and cheaper with cold fusion. - Jed
