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Climate Change Stopped the Next Ice Age
New research shows that 2,000 years ago, remnants of a once-vast Arctic ice sheet began growing again, marking the start of a new glacial period—what we commonly call an ice age. But by the 1960s, global warming had raised summer temperatures enough to reverse that growth.
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