Was the whole world frozen during the Ice Age?
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No, not during the last ice ages, but you may be thinking of "Snowball Earth". During the last series of ice ages, ice came as far south as the northern US, and it left behind a pile of dirt we currently call Long Island (near NYC), and a bunch of puddles we call the Great Lakes. read more
"We can look to land plants as the primary buffering agent that's held CO2 in such a narrow range during this time." Over geologic time, large volumes of carbon dioxide have been released into the atmosphere by volcanoes. read more
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