Greenland’s Ancient Warm Period Reveals Future Climate Risks
About this episode
Studying Earth’s past environments is critical for predicting the impacts of human-driven climate change. By looking at how the Arctic responded to warm periods millions of years ago, scientists can make more accurate predictions about what lies ahead. A groundbreaking study led by Drs. Gina Moseley, Gabriella Koltai and Jonathan Baker at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, has revealed Greenland’s dramatically different past. Read More
German version
Die Untersuchung vergangener Umweltbedingungen ist wichtig. Sie hilft uns zu verstehen, wie der menschengemachte Klimawandel wirkt. Wenn Wissenschaftler die Arktis und ihre Reaktionen auf frühere warme Zeiten studieren, können sie genauere Vorhersagen für die Zukunft machen. Eine bahnbrechende Studie von Dr. Gina Moseley, Dr. Gabriella Koltai und Dr. Jonathan Baker an der Universität Innsbruck zeigt die drastisch andere Vergangenheit Grönlands. Wissenschaftler fanden Mineralablagerungen tief in alten Höhlen. Diese zeigen, dass es im späten Miozän, vor etwa 11,6 bis 5,3 Millionen Jahren, deutlich wärmer war. Read More
Greenlandic version
Inuit silap pissusiata allanngoriartorneranut sunniutigisinnaasaat siumoortumik takussangaanni, qanga Nunarsuup avatangiisia misissorneqarnissaa pisariaqarpoq. Ukiut millionilippassuit matuma siorna, Issittup qanoq kiannerusoq qisuariarfigisimaneranut paasiniaaffigineratigut, ilisimatuut siunissami siumoortumik eqqornerusumik nalilersuisinnaapput. Misissuinermi aallarniisut, Østrigimi Innsbruckip Universitetianeersut Dr. Gina Moseley, Gabriella Koltai aamma Jonathan Baker, Kalaallit Nunaata oqaluttuarisaanera allaanerujussuaq ersersippat. Read More
Original Article Reference:
Summary of the paper: ‘Late Miocene Arctic warmth and terrestrial climate recorded by North Greenland speleothems’, in Nature Geoscience, doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01822-0
Contact
For further information, you can connect with Dr Gina Moseley at Gina.Moseley@uibk.ac.at
Funding
Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
The project also builds on the legacy of funding provided by the following organisations: Rolex Award for Enterprise; National Geographic Society; University of Innsbruck Nachwuchsförderung; Comer Science and Education Foundation; Global Climate Change Foundation; Petzl Foundation; Mount Everest Foundation; Austrian Academy of Sciences (Österreichischen Nationalkomitees für GEO/HYDRO-SCIENCES); British Cave Research Association; Transglobe Expedition Trust; National Speleological Society; Quaternary Research Association; Wilderness Lectures; Wings WorldQuest; Ghar Parau Foundation.
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