Climate and Anthropocene at the Collège de France
Most Swedes know that our country was covered by ice during the ice-ages – latest some 20 000 years ago. We know this because our lands are still “rebounding” like a spring – or a sponge - that has been compressed (except that this goes on for thousands of years). It is just a few mm per year but it gives a feeling for how mighty the forces of nature are.
That must have been a heavy load of ice! In fact when I fly in to Gothenburg I look down and think that a third of that distance was ice… Still I never compared this to Antarctica.