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Global warming may have averted an ice age 2,000 years ago

Original: Global warming may have prevented a return to the ice age 2,000 years ago

A new report suggests human-caused global warming may have stopped Earth from entering a new ice age roughly 2,000 years ago. The finding adds to debate over how long human influence on the climate stretches back, with commentators weighing the irony that a warming trend could have forestalled natural cooling.

Why now: New climate research challenges assumptions about when human impact on the climate began

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