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 The title text references the "[https://notendur.hi.is//~oi/AG-326%202006%20readings/Canadian%20Arctic/Dyke_QSR2002.pdf The Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum (PDF)]," an actual series of scientific papers about the ice sheet (see figure 4). But it also refers to the animated {{w|Ice_Age_(film_series)|''Ice Age''}} film series, specifically to ''{{w|Ice Age: the Meltdown}}'', and ''{{w|Ice Age: Continental Drift}}'' which are the second and fourth Ice Age films.
-Ice sheets over Boston during the last ice age was also referenced in [[1379: 4.5 Degrees]]. The image of Boston in this comic is reused at the top of the huge chart in [[1732: Earth Temperature Timeline]], and had already been reused earlier in the [[what if?]] post ''{{what if|63|Google's Datacenters on Punch Cards}}''. [[Randall]] lives in that area.
+Ice sheets over Boston during the last ice age was also referenced in [[1379: 4.5 Degrees]]. The image of Boston in this comic is reused at the top of the huge chart in [[1732: Earth Temperature Timeline]], and had already been reused earlier in the ''[[what if? (blog)|what if?]]'' post ''{{what if|63|Google's Datacenters on Punch Cards}}''. [[Randall]] lives in that area.
 Although this comic doesn't mention (modern) climate change, it does show the difference climate can have on our surroundings. And in the two later comics mentioned above, Randall makes it clear that we are now heading as far in the opposite hotter direction compared to the "normal" temperature during the rise of human civilization, as the ice age temperature was colder.

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 {{w|Toronto}} and {{w|Montreal}} are both {{w|Canada|Canadian}} cities, while {{w|Boston}} and {{w|Chicago}} are in the {{w|United States}}. The skylines of each city are shown at the bottom of the ice sheet to scale. The tallest structure shown is the {{w|CN Tower}} in Toronto, the tallest free-standing structure in the {{w|Western Hemisphere}}, at a height of 553 m. The tallest ice sheet is 3.3 km tall, almost six times as tall as that tower. Although, over Toronto, the ice was "only" 2.1 km tall.
-The tallest ice sheet takes up 265 pixels. From that, each pixel is about 12.4 meters and the height of the panels is 3.7 km with less than 200 m of the ground shown in black below the cities making the white "air" above ground reaching up to 3.5 km, leaving only 200 m of air above the highest ice sheet.{{What?}}
+The tallest ice sheet takes up 265 pixels. From that, each pixel is about 12.4 meters and the height of the panels is 3.7 km with less than 200 m of the ground shown in black below the cities making the white "air" above ground reaching up to 3.5 km, leaving only 200 m of air above the highest ice sheet.<!-- gibberish -->
 The title text references the "[https://notendur.hi.is//~oi/AG-326%202006%20readings/Canadian%20Arctic/Dyke_QSR2002.pdf The Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum (PDF)]," an actual series of scientific papers about the ice sheet (see figure 4). But it also refers to the animated {{w|Ice_Age_(film_series)|''Ice Age''}} film series, specifically to ''{{w|Ice Age: the Meltdown}}'', and ''{{w|Ice Age: Continental Drift}}'' which are the second and fourth Ice Age films.