Re: “Did Hurricane Milton Have Help in Suddenly Becoming One of the Most Powerful Storms in History?”

On 10/12/24 00:58, Charles Packer wrote:

On 11 Oct 2024 13:24:36 -0000, Scott Dorsey wrote:
 

Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

A related line of thinking more congenial to SF is the following:
What would history have been like if it had been discovered, say, during
World War II that control like that could have been achieved?

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Would Stalin have succeeded in converting Siberia to a warm and
temperate land able to grow many crops?  Or would he have decided to
leave it the way it was so he had a good place to keep gulags?
--scott

 Don't you think he would have used the capability to pester the
West? That's always seemed to be at the top of the Russian agenda,
according to history that I've read.

Stalin if alive would have not wanted a warm and temperate climate anywhere but Moscow and its immediate environs.  But
Siberia is warming now and we may regret it as the warming is producing
large sinkholes after the methane trapped ine permafrost escapses into
our atmosphere. Some of the same is happening on other areas under laid by large amounts of permafrost.
That is aside from the clathrates in the undersea which is warming as well. Humanity has made some serious and perhaps irreversible
mistakes since the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
You can call me an optimist but I think we are Doomed.
bliss
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