Global warming may have prevented a return to the ice age 2,000 years ago
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Earth’s persistently frozen poles mean the last ice age never really came to an end. What we think of as the mammoth-romping, Neanderthal-stomping chapter of geological history was technically a glacial maximum, one our planet would now be returning to if not for our love of burning coal, according to a recently published study. Continue Reading Category: Environment , Science Tags: glacier , Columbia University , Global Warming , ice age
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