22 points dxs 1 hour ago 7 comments

PowerElectronix 54 minutes ago | parent

Does this mean that the ice wasn't there during the stone age?

throwaway173738 20 minutes ago | parent

Whatever you put in the glacier the glacier gives back to you. Anything you leave there ends up at the bottom of it in the moraine.

kzrdude 16 minutes ago | parent

Yes: most mainland Norway ice was gone during the holocene climatic optimum (9–6 thousand years ago), and glaciers recovered since then (until approx the 20th century, when deglaciation started accelerating again).

The climate is varying in long cycles, and the deglaciation 20 thousand years ago (last glacial maximum) was driven by a spike in summer temperatures, and this peak has already long passed. Ice ages and interglacial periods have a certain momentum to them, so it takes more than just that to go back to full ice age..

mikert89 17 minutes ago | parent

Hyperborea

gAI 9 minutes ago | parent

Including Stone Age diseases?