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Something scientists aren't yet agreed on. antarctica the cold of the place on earth is a continent covered in ice and icebergs have been breaking away from ice shelves for millions of years, but at the end of the 20th century the peninsula was one of the fastest warming places on the planet and that warming has slowed or reversed slightly in this century. >> you learn all of this just from samples of ice. >> you learn it from samples of ice and samples of rock. >> this geochemist says the overall trends in the arctic point to global warming. >> the fact that we've had seven out of the 12 ice ...

The peninsula break off and dissolve. the first in 1995, and then another in 2002. she watched as this crack grew for years. caught offguard that the break happened so soon. what the break means is something scientists aren't agreed opt antarctica, the coldest place on earth, is a continent covered in ice. and icebergs have been breaking away from ice shelves for millions of years. at the end of the 20th century, the peninsula was one of the fastest warming places on the planet. that warming has slowed or reversed slightly in the century. >> you learn all of this just from samples of ice. >> y...

The fastest warming places on the planet. that warming has slowed or reversed slightly in this century. you learn all of this just from samples of ice. >> you learn from samples of ice and samples of rock. >> reporter: this geochemist says the overall trends in the arctic point to global warming. >> the fact we've had 7 out of the 12 ice shelves on antarctica collapse in the last few decades and this one appears to be ready to go with the breaking off of this major iceberg, that it's hard to attribute to anything else. >> kyung lah, cnn, los angeles. up for us, the president's team pulling o...