XPost: alt.global-warming, sci.skeptic   
   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/28/2025 8:18 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   > On 12/28/25 6:10 PM, Dawn Flood wrote:   
   >   
   >> You claim that Humanity could geoengineer our World's climate if it   
   >> ever became too cold   
   >   
   > "Dawn," are we pretending here? So, "Dawn," my scrumptious dish   
   > of raspberry sorbet! I do so hate to correct you, you are so   
   > delightfully obtuse, so please oh please do not take this as   
   > a criticism but...   
   >   
   > No. I pointed out that the "Ice Age," the Quaternary Period was   
   > precipitated by the formation of the Isthmus of Panama, which   
   > changed the way the earth circulated the energy from the sun. AND   
   > this change in circulation took HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS   
   > to cool the deep ocean waters, sparking the so called "Ice Age."   
   > Pointing to this, what I "Claimed" is that we can geoengineer   
   > the planet but it would likely take hundreds of thousands of years   
   > before the Quaternary period ended -- so they'd be one or more   
   > additional glacial periods in our future... almost certainly more   
   > than one.   
   >   
   > You're the idiot who thinks we can completely re-work the planets   
   > climate with a couple of centuries of fossil fuels, amongst your   
   > ever so endearing traits.   
   >   
      
   Fine!  I stand corrected!!  Apparently, it would seem that you deny the   
   greenhouse effect:   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect   
      
   I will not call you names for holding to this position!   
      
   Dawn   
      
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