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this current warming trend started right around ten thousand years ago, according to glacial samples from Lake Vostok. There have been minor cooling periods during this time, such as the cooling period of the mini ice age in the 1800's, but the overal trend has been upward. In terms of total warming, we have seen about 11 degrees C of total warming over the past ten thousand years.

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