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   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/1/2025 2:05 AM, JTEM wrote:   
   > On 11/30/25 10:04 PM, Dawn Flood wrote:   
   >> 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...   
   >   
   >> 20 million years??  You might want to look that figure up.   
   >   
   > Why?  Are you confusing the term "Ice Age" for "Glacial Period?"   
   >   
   > The last glacial period was over 100,000 years old, but it was   
   > a mere cycle within a larger ice age.   
   >   
      
   There are no million-plus year cycles to the Earth's climate.   
      
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