In a quiet pond at the end of a swamp lies an ancient treasure.
—
9,000 years ago large pine trees grew in Rondane, Jotunheimen, Dovrefjell and on the Hardangervidda.
—
Now the mountain is growing again. Our great grandchildren have to walk in the Norwegian mountain forest.
—
Reidar Müller is a detective. He is trying to reveal our future.
——
RONDANE (Aftenposten): At the end of the ice age, Norway warmed very quickly. Fjellheimen was covered by a large forest. But why?
Geologist and author Reidar Müller jumps into the snaufjellet. He doesn’t get to his ponds fast enough. Neither mullet nor sight.
Talking incessantly about the past, as geologists love to do. But also about the future. He has no doubts that Norway is heading full speed in a climate that has been around for a long time since we last had it.
In his new book “Fire and Ice – A Brief Introduction to the History of Climate”, he takes us into the past climate of the globe. From the era of dinosaurs to the era of mammoths, but also the recent past of the last ten thousand years in Norway.
It has been hot in here before.
Besides, Norway looked very different.
Now we are going back there again. And that means summit tours in the Norwegian mountains will change dramatically.
Read the whole story with a subscription
—
