Climate change reveals unique artifacts in melting ice patches:
Sometime around 2000 BCE, a red-wing thrush died at Skirådalskollen in the Dovrefjell mountain range. Its small body quickly became buried under an ice patch. Upon emerging again 4,000 years later, its internal organs are still intact.
In recent years, hundreds of such discoveries have been made in ice patches, revealing traces of hunting, trapping, traffic, animals and plant life -- small, frozen moments of the past.
[...] "A survey based on satellite images taken in 2020 shows that more than 40 per cent of 10 selected ice patches with known finds have melted away. These figures suggest a significant threat for preserving discoveries from the ice, not to mention the ice as a climate archive," says Skar.
"The time is ripe for establishing a national monitoring programme using remote sensing and systematically securing archaeological finds and biological remains from ice patches. We should also use this programme to collect glaciological data from different parts of the country, since the ice patches can provide detailed data on how the climate has evolved over the last 7500 years," she said.
[...] "We used to think of the ice as desolate and lifeless and therefore not very important. That's changing now, but it's urgent. Large amounts of unique material are melting out and disappearing forever. Finds can provide important information about the history of both people and nature," he said.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 28 2022, @11:42PM (8 children)
Thought #1: Global warming is a catastrophe that will kill us all as the planet experiences unprecedented warming.
Thought #2: Warming climate melts ice exposing where life flourished before when temperatures were warmer.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 28 2022, @11:45PM (2 children)
https://www.sciencealert.com/artefacts-scattered-along-a-lost-viking-highway-in-norway-uncovered-by-melting-ice [sciencealert.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @03:23AM (1 child)
Are they hiding that?
https://www.sciencealert.com/artefacts-scattered-along-a-lost-viking-highway-in-norway-uncovered-by-melting-ice [sciencealert.com] immediately redirects to https://www.sciencealert.com [sciencealert.com]
Using their search function shows the article, but attempting to read it just takes you back to https://www.sciencealert.com [sciencealert.com]
Anyway, for those unrepentant climate denyologists that would like to read it, here http://web.archive.org/web/20220325194316/https://www.sciencealert.com/artefacts-scattered-along-a-lost-viking-highway-in-norway-uncovered-by-melting-ice [archive.org]
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday May 29 2022, @03:52PM
The link works perfectly fine for me, no redirection, and it even displays perfectly without JavaScript.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 4, Funny) by MIRV888 on Sunday May 29 2022, @05:40AM
The earth used to be a molten ball. So it's all good.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @11:55AM (2 children)
Idiot thinking 4000 years ago life was more abundant and the weather warmer than today, based on a single animal found frozen in the ice.
I wonder what he'll say after learning they found a single shoe in the same ice, afraid he'll suggest there were rolling fashion shows at the time, as TFA starts with:
FIY, temperatures over last 20000 years [ucr.edu]
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday May 29 2022, @02:26PM (1 child)
Per your link it's now clear why humans completely died out 4,000 years ago during the Holocene Maximum when the temperature was much higher than it is now.
We are indeed all going to die.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @10:18AM
You still contemporary with Jesus Christ?
Not all. Just most of us.
Not enough game left to hunt, not enough free range berries to gather.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2022, @09:54PM
AGW causes migration, causes migrants, which are a danger to border walls everywhere. Do not worry. 39±6 seconds to Malthusian remediation.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @12:49AM
Submit your Brietbart-sourced submissions right away, or SN may go away, or quickly run away.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @04:35AM (2 children)
Yeah, I know, possibly off topic, but nothing seems to be going on in this thread. In case no one noticed, Ironrose has a journal entry. No one noticed, since there is a minimum karma level for a journal to appear on the front page. (See nostyle's journal [soylentnews.org] on this.) But I, for one, thought some discussion on this topic would be interesting, in light of the SCOTUS behavior of late.
Isenrose's journal entry [soylentnews.org]
Of course, as even moreso with the ammosexual child-killing Runaway journal entries, you do not have to read it. I am only looking for rational discussion.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2022, @06:37AM (1 child)
Just to point out, it is not me that is posting this, being that I am banned from posting.
Godspeed, Soylentils!
Ironrose
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2022, @03:59AM
They're taking the hobbits to Isenrose!