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   From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   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.   
      
      
      
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