Regional Cooling Since The 1980s Has Driven Glacier Advance in The Karakoram Mountains

Aerial view of the snow-covered Karakoram Mountains with glaciers and rugged peaks under a clear blue sky.

From No Trick Zone

By Kenneth Richard 

Central Asia’s Karakoram Mountains have not undergone any warming since 1851, a trend that is inconsistent with claims that modern warming has been global in scale.

Per a new study ‘s reconstruction of summer temperatures over the last 170 years, this region has cooled dramatically (by nearly 1°C) since the 1980s. This “anomalous” cooling trend has led to glacier stability and even advance over the last several decades.

“Since the late 20th century, the decrease of summer temperature in the last decades has been one of the main drivers of the Karakorum anomaly.”

Graph titled 'Recent cooling enhances glacier resilience to global warming in the northern Karakoram: Evidence from tree rings', showing temperature reconstructions and observations from 1840 to 2020, highlighting the cooling trend in the Karakoram Mountains.
Image Source: Liu et al., 2025


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