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Arctic ice cap was regrowing toward a new ice age until 1960s warming, study finds

Its researcher Andrey Ganopolski publicly disputed the glacial inception claim

The last remnant of the ice sheet that once covered most of North America began growing again about 2,000 years ago, the start of a new glacial period. A study in Science found the Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin Island expanded until around 1960, when rising summer temperatures reversed the growth.

Updated 7 days ago

Global warming has accelerated since 2015, study finds

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Published the 2026 acceleration study

The planet warmed about 0.35°C per decade over the past ten years, nearly twice the pace from 1970 to 2015. A study published this week is the first to show that increase is statistically real, not an artifact of El Niño or a few hot years.

Updated Nov 2