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The team found that the ice ages of Greenland, Antarctica,

Jan. 2, 2018 by Kenneth Newton

The team found that the ice ages of Greenland, Antarctica, and Antarctica’s polar regions were the major determinants of the warming of the Earth's polar ice sheets.

It's hard to think of the last time that the coldest land mass in Earth’s history was at the bottom of the ocean. But they did find evidence that a major change in the ice sheet was occurring at the same rate that the planet's surface was warming. It's interesting to note that the study was focused on the Antarctic ice sheet from Antarctica, which was warmer than the surface of the Earth. So if these climate predictions were true, then the ice ages of Antarctica, which was warmer than the surface, were at least as large as the surface of Earth. It may be that the ice ages of Antarctica were caused by the ocean warming, not by the surface warming. But it is also possible that the ice ages of Antarctica were influenced by a series of volcanic events at the same time that the surface warming was happening.

It's interesting to see that the study was not just a result of a coincidence, but, rather, a set of two events in the history of the Earth.

One is that the ice age in Antarctica was actually caused by a series of events that would cause the ice cores from the Greenland Ice Sheet to melt. This was, in the words of the study's lead author, "a very significant event that occurred within the last 2,000 years, and was probably caused by something like an asteroid impact."

The other is that the ice ages of Antarctica were caused by the Antarctic Ice sheet. They may have been caused by a volcanic event on a similar scale to the one that would have occurred on the surface of the Earth.

Given that both the Greenland Ice Sheet and the Antarctic Ice Sheet are still ice sheets, that seems like a fair bit of evidence for a sudden change in Earth's temperature to some degree.

Of course, that evidence does not support the existence of a large-scale warming of the Earth. One of the more controversial arguments being made is that the record-breaking increase in the temperature of the Earth's crust (with the exception of the ice sheet) is a result of human activities. But it's hard to think of the last time that the coldest land mass in Earth’s history was at the bottom of the ocean. But it's interesting to see that the study was not just a result of a coincidence, but, rather, a set of two events in the history