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PBS Space Time
Is an Ice Age Coming?
Season 2
Episode 30
We’re living in a brief window of time where our planet isn’t frozen underneath a giant layer of glaciers. How much longer will the moderate climate that we’ve come to know as “normal” continue? This episode looks at how the changes in our planet’s orbit and rotation impacts our climate.
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