At https://phys.org/news/2025-11-big-quest-bottom-climate-ice.html … the obsession with climate change led to this piece of research – which may be useful in ways they have not thought about. What was the climate in central Asia like in the Late Glacial Maximum.
Russian born glaciologist Stanislav Kutuzov and Evan Miles, based at a Swiss university, as well as a team of 15 from Japan, Tajikistan, and various other places, targeted the Pamir Mountains as the source of an ice core. They have extracted one core which went down 100 m and a second core followed. It came from a mountain ridge near the Chinese border – a remote part of the world. It is all part of the Pamir-Karakorum mountain chain, in the backyard of the Himalayas. It has often been noted there is no evidence of global warming in this part of the world. Primarily, no evidence of glaciers receding as they have in some other parts of the world. One reason may be the extreme height of some of the mountain glaciers. Whatever, this is what has intrigued scientists – who presumably believe a few glaciers melting = global warming. It is described as an anomaly as it is not playing ball with the climate change agenda. Scientists naturally are inquisitive and want to find out why. At the same time they will get a lengthy ice core that may take them all the way back to the Late Glacial Maximum when ice sheets in NE America and NW Europe were extensive – as far as southwards growth is concerned. They chose, for convenience of getting their equilment to the site, the Kon Chukubashi glacier.
In the last 5 m of the extracted ice core the ice became dark brown with a sort of yellowish colouration. This led up to the very end of the ice core which was composed of yellow ice. It had so much sediment in the ice. In fact, dust was common to all parts of the two ice cores Ice cores also trap ancient air bubbles which is useful as well as they can provide some information about atmospheric conditions. Even the concentration of greenhouse gases. The Pamirs, we are told, are commonly referred to as the roof of the world.