Dr. Sebastian Lüning earlier today released his latest Klimaschau report, No. 6 [Video at the end]. In the first part, he looks at glaciers in the Alps over the course of much of the Holocene.
It turns out that Most of the Alps were ice-free 6,000 years ago, glaciologists have discovered.
In his video, the German geologist presents a new paper authored by glaciologists Bohleber et al, 2020 of the Austrian Academy of Science.
The Austrian-Swiss team discovered from ice cores that the 3,500-meter high Weißseespitze summit was ice-free 5,900 years ago.
Much warmer in the early Holocene
Lüning next shows why the Alps were ice-free 6,000 years ago by using a chart by Heiri et al 2015, which shows it was some 2°C warmer than today.
Beginning some 10,000 years ago, after the Ice Age ended, all glaciers below 4,000 meters elevation in the East Alps melted away over the years that followed.
Then beginning 6,000 years ago, cooling started again and the glaciers returned (neoglaciation). Today, temperatures in the Alps are still well below early Holocene levels.
Today’s glacial retreat very much in debate
Roughly 5,300 years ago, Ötzi succumbed to injuries just a few kilometers from the Weißseespitze, says Lüning.
“The historical glacier melt show that today’s glacier retreat is not a new phenomenon. Whether or not there will be another complete melting of the East Alps glaciers remains a scientific debate.”
Also, you’ll find many more non-alarmist articles on glaciers here.
All images cropped from Klimaschau, Ausgabe 6
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And Glaciers were suppost to be gone last year in Glacier National Park way too bad Eco-Freaks
It was easier for Hannibal over 2,000 years ago. Have you seen the reports of the docks serving Rome, found inland many feet above current sea level with numbered mooring posts, when they looked in the right place? There is also geological evidence of the same higher sea levels right up the Persian gulf, or is that the Arabian Gulf, that at that time inundated the Euphrates coastal lowlands towards Baghdad by about 2m rise above todays levels. Clearly a global effect. Planetary Science Letters 142 (1996) 43-57. Well known, except to climate “scientists” They don’t like new testament science. .