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Greenhouse gas emissions halted new ice age, study says
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By 1960, the Barnes Ice Cap began losing mass entirely as annual melting outpaced snow accumulation.
Barnes Ice Cap Shrinkage and Canada Laurentide Ice Sheet Reversal Earth stood on the brink of a new ice age roughly 2,000 years ago before human-driven greenhouse gas emissions halted the planetary cooling cycle, according to research published in the journal Science .
As global temperatures warmed following the last glacial maximum, the immense ice sheet retreated significantly, leaving behind the Barnes Ice Cap as the final surviving dome in the high plateau region of Baffin Island.
Young, an author of the study, notes that the Barnes Ice Cap serves as a vital archive for past environmental shifts, preserving records of environmental change as the massive ice sheet shrank and subsequently expanded.
Radiocarbon Dating and Baffin Island Kill Dates To determine when the glacial ice expanded, researchers utilized radiocarbon dating on preserved moss and plant remains trapped beneath the advancing ice.
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