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Since about 20,000 years ago when the last ice age, or glacial period, reached it's peak, after that the caps began to melt, receding from the states of america, northern Europe, northern-mid Asia etc, which lead to flooding all around the world which caused things like the flooding of the land which connected england and France etc.

Although it has been melting steadily over the millenniums, scientist who are paid to investigate continuously on why the world is getting warmer have come to the conclusion that CO2(carbon dioxide) from cars and coal power plants etc are causing the planet to warm faster, even though sufficient evidence has not been presented.

As of right now, the south pole and the caps around green land are melting in the summer and freezing in the winter.

there were also a few periods in history that were called "the little ice age" or "the little ice ages" which caused famine and starvation in the not too distant past, and "the medieval warm period" which lasted about 300 years which was before the little ice age.

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