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   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/30/2025 5:34 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   > On 11/30/25 6:12 PM, Dawn Flood wrote:   
   >   
   >> It won't end, that's the predictions of the climate models.   
   >   
   > It will end, this glacial/interglacial cycle. Even if it takes   
   > 20 million years, it will end. And the earth will be cooler   
   > after it ends than it was before it began.   
   >   
   > THAT is the long term trend:  Downward. Cooling.   
   >   
   > We do have the power to geoengineer the planet though. It's a   
   > question of consequences:  What are they?   
   >   
   > And even if we did geoengineer the planet, it's likely it would   
   > take HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS for the deep ocean temps   
   > to warm up, ending this ice age for good.   
   >   
   > Could we maybe submerge nuclear reactors? Yes. Might we end up   
   > killing most of the ocean? Of course. And the alternative, just   
   > restore the exchange of waters between the oceans, will as I   
   > said take hundreds of thousands of years to work...   
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   >   
   >   
      
   20 million years??  You might want to look that figure up.   
      
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