A large tree trunk has been uncovered beneath a glacier in the Alps, dated to around 6,000 years ago.
The species is Swiss stone pine. Today, trees of that type cannot grow at that altitude because it is far too cold.
6,000 years ago aligns with the Holocene climate optimum, a time when temperatures were far higher than now, even with far less atmospheric CO2.
Earth's climate is cyclical and Mother Nature self-regulates.
Narratives of doom serve political aims, not reality.
Due to natural climate change, the Earth was much warmer 5,900 years ago when a whitebark pine forest was growing in the Rockies far above the modern tree line. At this same time, the water level of Lake Tahoe in California was much lower where submerged tree stumps of a similar age have been discovered.
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