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| - During the summer of 2016, when for the first time in recorded history the arctic circle was ice free, solar radiation could no longer be deflected by polar ice, and instead rapidly heated the north atlantic. This in turn resulted in an uncontrolled rise of temperatures that kept the arctic ice free, and caused global melting at a far more rapid pace. By spring 2017 the Siberian permafrost had melted and released millions of tons of trapped Methane gas into the atmosphere, throwing climate change into overdrive. By Summer of 2018 the southern ice caps had melted and most of the world's levies finally broke with the rising tide, flooding most of the planet's coastal cities. This left as many as 2 billion people displaced as climate refugees all around the world. Much of the world's oceans e
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| - During the summer of 2016, when for the first time in recorded history the arctic circle was ice free, solar radiation could no longer be deflected by polar ice, and instead rapidly heated the north atlantic. This in turn resulted in an uncontrolled rise of temperatures that kept the arctic ice free, and caused global melting at a far more rapid pace. By spring 2017 the Siberian permafrost had melted and released millions of tons of trapped Methane gas into the atmosphere, throwing climate change into overdrive. By Summer of 2018 the southern ice caps had melted and most of the world's levies finally broke with the rising tide, flooding most of the planet's coastal cities. This left as many as 2 billion people displaced as climate refugees all around the world. Much of the world's oceans ended up desalinated, killing billions of tons of fish and crippling the world's fishing industries. The Flood was an ecological and human disaster caused by misuse of resources and years of sustained warming. Millions of acres of farmland became useless, and billions of people were forced to leave their homes; many of these families (often known as "floodies") traveled to areas where they found ecological and economic conditions little better than those they had left. Owning no land, many traveled from place to place picking crops and doing menial labor at starvation wages. While the summer of 2019 lasted until November 2019, the Winter of 2020 lasted until June 2020. This pattern of year long weather extremes continued until 2029 when the Oceans were finally resalinated, and the climate stabilized. Due to these radical temperature sifts the Flood Zone (the areas where water had totally overtaken global coastlines) remained either drowned by the ocean, or completely frozen over. Europe suffered the worst from the winters, as the whole continent would be covered in close to 5 meters of snow for most of the winter years. Canada also suffered from the Big Chill's as they were called, while its major cities were basically untouched by the rising tides, including Halifax, because of massive sea barriers built around the city. Many attribute the Big Chills to the eventual Canadian Civil War where food shortages from the Big Chills drove the Canadian provinces to hoard food and eventually pass laws to limit the movement of starving fellow Canadians to their respective territories. With the Heat Waves, floods, human displacement, brushfire wars, Big Chills, and food shortages, the Flood claimed an estimated 210 million lives, more than the Black Death and every major war of the 20th century combined.
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