The glaciers are not generally stable in interglacial periods. Melting ice from the last Ice Age is to be expected.
Same thing happened a thousand years ago as well, and probably happened faster then.
Cheers, Ben
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One of them has appalling taste in home decor, but if this is symptomatic of brain damage I submit that long-term exposure to the cultural vacuum of the San Fernando Valley is at least as plausible a proximate cause.
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