The Rome Olympics, JFK, Sharpeville, and... the end of an Ice Age
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After ten thousand years of a balmy interglacial, during which humans learned to till the soil, smelt metal and write down their history, the next glacial period got started around the time of Christ, built gradually over two thousand years, and then was brought to an abrupt halt in 1960 . Technically, we've been in the same Ice Age for tens of millions of years, swinging between glacial periods (what most people think of as an Ice Age, with ice sheets over Canada and Northern Europe) and interglacial periods (with smaller polar ice caps, but still ice). In the 1970s, some feared that aerosol
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