How did glaciers respond to climate change in the past?
Channel: Aarhus Universitet
Date: 2021-03-25

Climate change is one of the biggest issues we face in the world today. Melting ice in the Arctic is one of the most visible signs that our climate is changing. Yet our understanding of climate change, and our ability to predict what will happen in the future, is somewhat limited by the length of our instrumental records. I use foraminifera to understand how a glacier in Northeast Greenland responded to climate change thousands of years ago, to better predict how it will respond to anthropogenic climate change in the future.