<div dir="ltr"><div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"IBM Plex Serif",serif;font-size:17px;font-weight:600">Stefan Rahmstorf is Co-Head of Research Department on Earth System Analysis of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Professor of Physics of the Oceans at the University of Potsdam.</span></div><div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><a href="https://www.pik-potsdam.de/members/stefan/homepage" target="_blank">https://www.pik-potsdam.de/members/stefan/homepage</a></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">Rahmstorf's scientific professional publishing history, 144 listings:</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><a href="https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/A-8465-2010" target="_blank">https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/A-8465-2010</a></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:30px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"IBM Plex Serif",serif;font-size:17px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/03/andean-glaciers-have-shrunk-more-than-ever-before-in-the-holocene/">https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/03/andean-glaciers-have-shrunk-more-than-ever-before-in-the-holocene/</a></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:30px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"IBM Plex Serif",serif">19 Mar 2025<span style="color:rgb(118,118,118);text-transform:uppercase;font-family:Raleway,sans-serif"> by </span><span class="entry-author" style="color:rgb(118,118,118);text-transform:uppercase;font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;box-sizing:inherit"><a href="https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/author/stefan/" class="entry-author-link" rel="author" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(211,95,98);text-decoration-line:none"><span class="entry-author-name" style="box-sizing:inherit">Stefan</span></a></span><span style="color:rgb(118,118,118);text-transform:uppercase;font-family:Raleway,sans-serif"> </span><span class="entry-comments-link" style="color:rgb(118,118,118);text-transform:uppercase;font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;box-sizing:inherit"><a href="https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/03/andean-glaciers-have-shrunk-more-than-ever-before-in-the-holocene/#comments" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(211,95,98);text-decoration-line:none">84 Comments</a></span></p></div></div><div><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(20,49,80);font-family:Raleway,sans-serif"><div class="gmail-kcite-section" style="box-sizing:inherit"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 26px;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Glaciers are important indicators of climate change. A <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg7546" rel="noopener" title="" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(211,95,98);text-decoration-line:none">recent study</a> published in the leading journal <em style="box-sizing:inherit">Science</em> shows that glaciers in the tropical Andes have now retreated further than at any other time in the entire Holocene – which covers the whole history of human civilization since the invention of agriculture. These findings are likely to resonate beyond the scientific community, as they strongly support the lawsuit filed by a Peruvian farmer against the energy company RWE, which has returned to court this week.</span></p></div></div></div></div>