Making use of the past to better understand the future

We studied how the Antarctic ice sheet advanced and retreated over 10,000 years. It holds warnings for the future:
https://theconversation.com/we-studied-how-the-antarctic-ice-sheet-advanced-and-retreated-over-10-000-years-it-holds-warnings-for-the-future-185505

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We studied how the Antarctic ice sheet advanced and retreated over 10,000 years. It holds warnings for the future

Interestingly, we also found a major period of ice loss in Antarctica was followed by a period of gain, starting some 5,000 years ago.

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