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