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.
johnmarshall says:
August 24, 2014 at 4:15 am
It’s well hidden, try to find it in Sci/Environment or any of the UK News pages without using the link in the article or the searching the site for jGlacier-like hazards. If you can then I’d be quite surprised. It’s been well hidden since it was put on the BBC site.
The glaciers will grow, the weight will force Scotland down into the crust, causing the sea levels at the coasts to rise as detected by the sensitive satellites. Which will be reported in the Grauniad and on MSNBCUL8TR as proof positive the Catastrophic Alarming Climate Activity is real, resumed, and very serious!
I await the breathless reports of the terrible toll among the Scottish seagull populations from the growing loss of beach habitat as the offshore wind turbines sometimes rotate in the background.
Has Al Gore been to Nevis in Scotland recently? That would explain it.
Surprise!
But Viner said in 2004
The new ice age has begun! Save children and the elderly first.
NO NO NO! It MUST be global warming producing glacers. The warm weather causes moisture that forms on a colder surface which creates ice and that becomes glacers and blah blah blah….
I don’t care what these guys observed in the real world. What do the models say?
I predict, oops I mean project that all crocodiles in Scotland will soon be extinct.
If this occurs it is a sure sign of global warming, oops I mean climate change.
Obviously, this is simply another sign of Climate Change. As everything is a sign of Climate Change a new ice age must be a sign of it too.
Doug Jones said on August 24, 2014 at 5:16 am:
Ah man, you spoiled it before the contest was officially announced today! Starting with those published today, you’re to make a list of all the hidden title typos. Once you have 18 (to celebrate the practically-18 years without global warming), you submit it for verification, and if you found them all first you’ve won and will be emailed the prize, the coveted Watts Golden Finger picture, now with Kenji pawprint insert.
But now that you blabbed the first one to everyone, they have to scrap the announcement and will reschedule for a later date. Thanks a lot, bud.
johnmarshall says:
August 24, 2014 at 4:15 am
I am surprised that the BBC reported this sign of global cooling. Out of character
I think this may have been the result of a secret meeting, at the BBC, with some sceptics and they have decided to prepare the way for an AGW bail-out. 🙂
kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
August 24, 2014 at 5:21 am
The glaciers will grow, the weight will force Scotland down into the crust, causing the sea levels at the coasts to rise as detected by the sensitive satellites.
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It could even cause Scotland to tip over.
Assuming this trend continues:
First it’s existence will be denied.
Then, overwhelming evidence will convince even the most die hard globalwarmist, and they’ll stutter excuses for its existence.
Finally, they’ll claim it was actually a predicted result of human-generated CO2 and is caused by global warming.
I was going to post my own playful comment on how this is a sure sign of cataclysmic global warming, but everyone else has done a great job so far. I am interested to see how this is actually explained away by alarmists. If anyone picks up a paper on that subject I would love to see it posted here.
With the incipient volcanic winter looming for Scottish Highlands, they have an excuse for cooling on the way.
As David Johnson says August 24, 2014 at 4:30 am
“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!”.
Too early to get too exited about this. Seen snow in Scottish mountains before in August and snow as well before CAGW became the “in thing” for certain people.
“Kate Forney on August 24, 2014 at 5:54 am says:
…It could even cause Scotland to tip over”
Oh noes! It’s the tipping point that Gore and Hansen have warned us about!
Sorry, I couldn’t resist 😉
“Bruce Cobb on August 24, 2014 at 5:02 am says:
One site.”
And one more reason to laugh at Prof Viner h/t Jimbo
I sense the advent of CAGC (catastrophic anthropogenic global cooling). We must all listen to the climate scientists and obey the politicians for whom they work or we shall all surely die as the planet is destroyed by ice!
Global warming is the greatest threat to mankind. The warmer temps will cause us all to freeze to death. I have it on the best AUTHORITY… 97% of our best climate scientists. Who are y’all, to say different. GK
This is not good news.
It looks like a good time to look at Pope’s Climate Theory
http://popesclimatetheory.com/
On the index page, there is a Short Version. Here is a link to the first page of the short version.
http://popesclimatetheory.com/page56.html
I do explain that Snow falls in the Warm Times when there is Ocean Effect Snow and then, after enough snow falls and enough ice advance, it does get cold again.
Cold periods always follow Warm Periods, ever since Warm Water got into the Polar Regions.
Let me know what you think of My Theory.
That is why they changed the motto from ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change’
It seems to me that Ben Nevis is pidgeon portugues for Bens Neves, or good snows. Is this a folk memory of a visit by Vasco de Gama?
A bit off topic, but in the “you knew it was going to happen” department:
Riots in Ferguson caused by Climate Change!!!
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/08/23/You-thought-there-was-no-possible-link-between-Ferguson-and-climate-change-Think-again
(from 350 dot org, natch)
First Hadrian’s wall, now this….they really DO want independence, don’t they 🙂 (OK, I know it’s not really on the border, but close…).
Now I can see folks queueing up for Haggis-sicles….(ouch….)…