A New Ice Age Was Beginning. Then Humans Started Burning Fossil Fuels
WIRED · 22 Oct 2026

A New Ice Age Was Beginning. Then Humans Started Burning Fossil Fuels

The findings shows the Barnes Ice Cap, which covers parts of Canada’s Baffin Island, started growing a few thousand years ago before rapidly reversing course beginning in the 1960s as carbon pollution ramped up. “A question that’s in the popular consciousness is, have we caused enough global warming to stop the next ice age from happening?”


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