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She was dishonest and distorted data and therefore was wrong. Hate the USA? Maybe next time a conqueror heads your way we step aside? Probably not for we are a decent people. Save your hate for more deserving sort.

 

Inferring I hate the USA from my comments is just wrong. I hate ALL jingoists who think that they have rights because they live in a particular country, especially when its at the expense of those less fortunate.

You have no more claim to THRIVE than any other of the billions of people on the planet, and when you invoke your geographical location as a basis for privilege, you have no case.

 

Well, if DDT was half as harmful as Dieldrin, which is of the same family of chemicals, we are well rid of it. I know people who got into diabolical trouble using that stuff. I warned them. They didn't listen.

 

Some historians query if the US would have entered the war against Japanese expansion, if Pearl Harbour and The Phillippines had been left unmolested. There is some support for that, in the fact the Japanese had occupied Indo-China earlier in 1941, unanswered by the Allies. For Australia, the attack on Pearl was probably a God-send, inasmuch as further expansion by Japan without US involvement, would have put us in a perilous situation, to say the least.

 

I replied to Mr Dow's ludicrous "Happy Pearl Harbor Day" announcement and now both posts are gone.
Dow's usual methods of distraction, misinformation and button mashing, sprinkled with his indignant chicken hawk Nationalism are still in play. If only Russia would change it's game plan, Dow's shtick is stale.

I'm going to borrow Joe(SoCal)'s signature for awhile...

 

Its good that those posts disappeared. "War stories" are not appropriate in this thread.

Hoyt started it with his USA all the way justification for ignoring climate, and then threatened to destroy the ASIO pact because I told him it was selfish and unjust.

This Thread is doing a great job highlighting the state of Oceans, which is what a Boat Forum should do.

Now , for some useful news.

2017 info - "Even as Earth grew warmer and glaciers and ice sheets thawed, decades of satellite data seemed to show that the rate of sea-level rise was holding steady—or even declining. Now, after puzzling over this discrepancy for years, scientists have identified its source: a problem with the calibration of a sensor on the first of several satellites launched to measure the height of the sea surface using radar. Adjusting the data to remove that error suggests that sea levels are indeed rising at faster rates each year."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/satellite-snafu-masked-true-sea-level-rise-for-decades/

 

Here is a "must watch" video for Ocean Destruction

 

Had the system we have been implemented elsewhere that place would have been able to thrive. Freedom allows for prosperity whilst socialism lowers it populace into a morass of misery.

 

Climate change has shifted the timing of European floods | BBC

According to a study published in the journal Science, in some regions, such as southern England, floods are now occurring 15 days earlier than they did half a century ago. But the changes aren't uniform, with rivers around the North Sea seeing floods delayed by around eight days.

In north-eastern Europe, earlier snow melt due to warmer temperatures is leading to earlier spring floods. But from Portugal up to Southern England the issue isn't snow melt - it's more about saturated soils. Maximum rainfall tends to occur in the autumn and gets stored in the soils. Heavier and earlier rain means that the groundwater reaches capacity earlier.

 

Don't forget about Claire Chennault and the Flying Tigers. We had volunteers going before formal declaration of war. It was inevitable that we would become involved. Tyranny is repulsive.

Claire Lee Chennault - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Lee_Chennault

 

The unfolding of history might look inevitable in retrospect, but there is much happenstance involved, without which, things may have turned out differently . Remember that when America declared war on Japan, it did not declare war on Germany. It is very hard to say what might have transpired, if Hitler did not declare war on the US in Dec 1941.

 

When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill knew we would be fighting Germany and Hitler also knew.
Pearl Harbor attack: How did Winston Churchill react? https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Decoder/2015/1207/Pearl-Harbor-attack-How-did-Winston-Churchill-react

 

I recalled that story even before typing that, and whilst it might have been Churchill's firm conviction, he did not have infallible judgement, as a succession of military follies he was responsible for in his life, illustrates. A lot of that was air-brushed out of popular history. Churchill was an enormously persuasive orator and writer, but he had failed to convince Roosevelt to enter the war, till Hitler changed that.

 

Yeah, Churchill may have had his faults but he was a helluva lot better for the free world than was Neville Chamberlain.

 

The whole scenario was big Ocean News in its day, just as Rocketman's nuke tests are moving the Earth's crust is big news today. What news will that event portend for this thread?