Story submitted by Eric Worrall
British Botanists conducting a Summer survey of Scotland’s tallest mountain, Ben Nevis, have been stunned to find evidence of recently formed multi-year ice fields, areas of compacted snow, some of which weigh hundreds of tons.
According to the BBC;
“Hazards common in arctic and alpine areas but described as “extremely unusual” in the UK during the summer have been found on Ben Nevis.
A team of climbers and scientists investigating the mountain’s North Face said snowfields remained in many gullies and upper scree slopes.
On these fields, they have come across compacted, dense, ice hard snow call neve.
Neve is the first stage in the formation of glaciers, the team said.”
The team has also encountered sheets of snow weighing hundreds of tonnes and tunnels and fissures known as bergschrunds.
Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-28885119
This is how ice ages start – a buildup of snow which does not melt in the Summer, which leads to a positive feedback loop, as the growing ice sheet reflects more and more sunlight back into space.
I guess that doesn’t fit in terribly well with the narrative, does it……Another re-write needed.
That seems to tie in with Winnipeg’s new glacier:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/winnipeg-still-dealing-with-18-metre-snow-pile-in-august-1.1951076
No, No, No. Ice stores heat and is the sure sign of CAGW. (Jumps up and down having a tizzy fit)\\
/Sarc
Buy stock in Scottish ski resorts. The upside looks very promising!!!
In summer and autumn 2009, when I visited Scotland, some complained they couldn’t travel to the ski resort the previous season on account of poor roads. I later heard 2010 was a brutal winter. Can anybody provide more info about road conditions leading to ski resorts in Scotland? It seems to me that like Arkansas, the places may be beautiful, but it may be difficult to execute travel.
I am surprised that the BBC reported this sign of global cooling. Out of character.
Oh no! Ice in the summer – it’s extreme weather!
(Runs around waving alarmist hands in the air)
A sure sign of warming. Obviously there’s so much heat the missing heat has been transferred to the bottom of the mountain.
I wonder how old these climbers and scientists were! I used to go rock climbing in Scotland quite a lot back in the 70s and 80s. It was nothing unusual to see patches of old hard snow that had survived the summer in North facing corries and gullies On one occasion, as late as August 1990, it was quite difficult to get to the start of my chosen climb on Ben Nevis because of a small bergschrund!
No surprise at all, Scotland’s temperatures are strongly affected by the Iceland Low, a semi-permanent atmospheric pressure system, while the precipitation is in the equal measure affected by the N. Atlantic SST (AMO).
Relationship Icelandic Low – AMO
That’s rather inconvenient.
Looks like the 1974 CIA report may be on right track.
How the Eugenicist 1%s who have birthed, marketed & profited from this deadly scam must be laughing.
They’ve been selling the World global warming caused by deadly plant food, while a very possible New Little Ice Age approaches.
Holdren & Ehrlich will also be pleased.
As I noted yesterday:
As Dr. David Viner of CRU said in 2004…….
“Unfortunately, it’s just getting too hot for the Scottish ski industry.”
Of course this is as predicted by climate scientists and is consistent with global warming.
Another sign of global warming. The world is so hot that the little cold left huddles up in small places like mountains creating glaciers. It’s worse than we thought.
The Old Farmer’s Almanac Editor Janice Stillman predicts ‘Super-Cold’ Winter, More Snow In Eastern U.S.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/21/farmers-almanac-cold-winter_n_5695761.html
Global Warming!
I hope the next Ice Age does not materialize before the Earth is finished Rebounding from the weight of the last Ice Age Glaciers. I certainly hope that Post Glacial Rebound will be debunked before that anyway. Am I talking to myself.?
Everything is caused by global warming/climate change/climate disruption so it must have some rational AGW explanation.
Let’s see!
Warm air causes more water vapor to stay in the air which leads to more evaporation. Because of the high latitude and altitude of the mountains of Scotland this precipitation arrive mostly as snow.
If it is too much, it won’t all melt during summer which then leads to ice to accumulate. This then cause the ice to expand.
But wait, this could cause a new ice age caused by global warming.
We’re all doomed!
The demise of the Scottish ski industry is not new. Viner was right! 14 years after his infamous statement and 10 years after his pronouncement of the death of the Scottish ski industry we had these weather reports.
Scottish skiing is headed for doom.
One site.
“Neve is the first stage in the formation of glaciers”
Formation of glaciers is not inconsistent with global warming.
A few runs of the millions of GCM’s projections show glaciation – so it must be true! Can’t be any other explanation!
The other day while watching the usaprocyclingchallenge event stage where they were in Breckenridge Colorado, the camera’s showed local mountains. There were many areas near the peaks with older snow pack. Most ski areas there have climate change (global warming) departments which I find strange, but isn’t surprising given the current levels of political correctness and junk science pervasive in our culture and even ski resorts need to pander to the Cause. It’s such a shame that Goddess Gaia hasn’t gotten the memo. I wonder how St. Mary’s Glacier near Golden is faring, having skied it in the Summer months in the ’70’s.
We had unprecedented amounts of snow last winter on Scottish mountains 😉 The winter storms that [thrashed] England fell as snow in Scotland above 600 m. It was not a cold winter with little to no frost in Aberdeen. August is normally the height of summer in Scotland but we had 3˚C last night with rural frosts. The snow on Ben Nevis will be freezing hard.
Anthony, did you get my email about Earth’s Wandering Magnetic Field?
http://euanmearns.com/the-laschamp-event-and-earths-wandering-magnetic-field/
I know this but they will still blame man. They will simply go back to their 1970s statements and say that were were right but for the wrong reasons.
Here is someone who appears to have never changed his tune since the 1970s. Let’s hope he’s wrong.
But the carbonphobes have assured me that 400ppm or 1,000ppm can stop the next ice age. Amazing stuff despite an ice age when co2 was well over 3,000ppm. We must act now!
I like the idea of being able to glissade in summer. Hurray!
Oops- typo in title- Surpise should be Surprise. (I know, I know, I make the same typo myself waaay too often.)