{"id":5668,"date":"2026-04-27T20:38:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/?p=5668"},"modified":"2026-04-27T21:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:24:31","slug":"a-major-chunk-of-greenlands-ice-sheet-melted-7000-years-ago-and-scientists-say-it-didnt-take-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/?p=5668","title":{"rendered":"A major chunk of Greenland&#8217;s ice sheet melted 7,000 years ago &#8211; and scientists say it didn&#8217;t take much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORIGIN:  https:\/\/www.yourweather.co.uk\/news\/<\/p>\n<p>A team drilling in Greenland found that a major high point of the ice sheet vanished entirely about 7,000 years ago, during conditions not dramatically warmer than today, and scientists are worried<\/p>\n<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a-major-chunk-of-greenland-s-ice-sheet-melted-7-000-years-ago-and-it-didn-t-take-much-warmth-1777310253353.webp\" data-image=\"flocov6xgh3f\" alt=\"Researchers have uncovered evidence that a major section of Greenland\u2019s ice sheet disappeared during a relatively mild warm period thousands of years ago\" title=\"Researchers have uncovered evidence that a major section of Greenland\u2019s ice sheet disappeared during a relatively mild warm period thousands of years ago\">Researchers have uncovered evidence that a major section of Greenland\u2019s ice sheet disappeared during a relatively mild warm period thousands of years ago<\/figure>\n<p>Scientists have known for a while that <strong>Greenland\u2019s ice sheet is more vulnerable than it looks<\/strong>, and a drilling project called GreenDrill has just turned up evidence that makes it look way worse than they were expecting.<\/p>\n<p>A fresh study by University at Buffalo has revealed that the Prudhoe Dome \u2013 a major elevated section of the ice sheet in northwest Greenland \u2013<strong> completely vanished around 7,000 years ago<\/strong> and stayed gone for what may have been thousands of years. <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, it&#8217;s been said to have<strong> happened during the Holocene<\/strong>, which is generally considered a period of relatively stable climate and is the same geological epoch we&#8217;re living in now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A warm spell that wasn&#8217;t even that warm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The dating method they used<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORIGIN: https:\/\/www.yourweather.co.uk\/news\/ A team drilling in Greenland found that a major high point of the ice sheet vanished entirely about 7,000 years ago, during conditions not dramatically warmer than today, and scientists are worried Researchers have uncovered evidence that a major section of Greenland\u2019s ice sheet disappeared during a relatively mild warm period thousands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5670,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668\/revisions\/5670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}