9,000-year-old treasure found in a pond in Rondane
In a quiet pond at the end of a bog lies an ancient treasure.
9,000 years ago, large pine trees grew in Rondane, Jotunheimen, Dovrefjell and on Hardangervidda.
Now the mountain is growing again. Our great-grandchildren have to walk in the forest in the Norwegian mountains.
Reidar Müller is a detective. He is trying to reveal our future.
RONDANE (Aftenposten): At the end of the ice age, Norway warmed up extremely quickly. Fjellheimen was covered by a large forest. Men why?
The geologist and author Reidar Müller jumps into the snaufjellet. He doesn’t get to his ponds fast enough. Neither mullets nor view.
Talking incessantly about the past, as geologists like to do. But also about the future. He has no doubt that Norway is heading full speed into 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 climate history”, he takes us into the past climate of the globe. From the age of the dinosaurs to the era of the mammoths, but also the recent past in the last thousand years in Norway.
It has been hot here before.
And then Norway looked very different.
Now we are on our way back there again. And that means that summit tours in Norwegian mountains will change dramatically.
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