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Humans accidentally canceled the next ice age — but it’s no reason to celebrate, scientists say
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Humans accidentally canceled the next ice age — but it’s no reason to celebrate, scientists say

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The Official Study: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aed3379

A shrinking ice cap in Arctic Canada tells a striking story of how humans may have halted the planet’s next ice age by burning fossil fuels , according to new research.

Around 20,000 years ago, the once vast Laurentide Ice Sheet sprawled from the Arctic Circle as far south as Illinois and was up to two miles thick in parts. All that remains of it now is the Delaware-sized Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin Island in Canada’s Nunavut territory.

Roughly 2,000 years ago, this ice cap started to slowly and steadily re-expand.…

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