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    The modern icehouse world we live in is geologically rare

    The world we live in today is an icehouse world. It is characterized by bipolar glaciation. We think of this as normal, but it's not. For most of the past 55 million years our planet was a greenhouse world. Bipolar glaciation is geologically rare, possibly unique. No other previous...
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    • bipolar glaciation geologic record glacial cycle greenhouse world high latitudinal thermal gradient icehouse world interglacial cycle low latitude thermal gradient
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