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Earth has been iceless before of course, and I've heard people claim its not a problem for it to happen again.
But if only this heating had occured slowly over a period of ~45 million years, nobody would have panicked. We'd adapt. Fauna and flora would adapt. We'd not even notice the ice caps melting.