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The Atlantic Gulf Stream was unexpectedly strong during the last ice age – new study
Twenty thousand years ago the world was locked into a great ice age. Ice sheets two miles thick covered much of North America, Scandinavia and the British Isles. Greenhouse gas concentrations were much lower, the world was 6°C colder, and because of all …