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.
More signs of global warming.
I think the US Military believes they can make those glaciers go away by owning the weather:
http://csat.au.af.mil/2025/volume3/vol3ch15.pdf
I like that.
“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.”
We have been told again and again that feedback makes it always hotter.
Surprice surprice, it works both ways.
[And the surprice of global cooling will, indeed, be very costly. 8<) .mod]
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Your statement may well be prophetic if we are entering another ice age… though I hope, in this instance, that you are incorrect.
🙂
This must be a consequence of the rising of Scotland being freed of the weight of the ice-age coverage and the sinking of the the south coast of England. Maybe a few cold winters and wet summers will be the turning point for this sensitive balance. Also, don’t forget that the continents are all moving north (slowly).
Could it be the beginning of the next ice-age? Nobody knows. We just have to continue recording the real data without fudging those. If the sun stays in minimum conditions and the release of coal ash and other dirty exhaust will be lowered, the conditions for more snow/ice covering will be better.
Wattsupwiththat gets Goat Haunt web cam fixed via special effects of truth.
http://www.allglacier.com/webcams/gohaunt.php
Just in time product.
“…De hot come go, come go. Now Is Coldy Coldy. Is ice. Hot den cold. Frreeeezy ice til hot again….” –attributed to Stephen Belcher, but actually by Sean Thomas in The Telegraph.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/seanthomas/100222487/when-it-comes-to-climate-change-we-have-to-trust-our-scientists-because-they-know-lots-of-big-scary-words/
Man made global warming is settled science didntchaknow but those diabolical Koch brothers bought up all the thermometer mfg companies and changed the calibration so now all thermometers read a lower temperature than it really is. Their sinister plan even causes your lying eyes to see snow and ice where there isn’t any.
jorgekafkazar says: —
“Dr David Viner, one-time senior research scientist at the climatic research unit of the University of East Anglia … was trapped under a glacier in Stockport, so was unable to comment at the time the Telegraph went to press.”
Kate,
“It could even cause Scotland to tip over.”
The Scots have been tipping over for centuries.
It’s all the scotch you see….
Berényi Péter says:
August 24, 2014 at 9:14 am
There is a significant difference between snow remaining on the peaks in gullies and some northern slopes – a common sight in Scotland; and ice from packed multi-year snow forming neve with bergschrunds. Although I can understand a warmist wish to have nobody notice.
This is off the topic … but I fear some data tampering … does anyone remember this graph for 2013 http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php It was not like this at all the last time I looked at it!!! It has been doctored!
Even in swiss alps some glaciers start to grow … just look at the last year 2013 ..
http://glaciology.ethz.ch/messnetz/lengthvariation.html
My models clearly show a CO2 induced migration of heat from Scotland into the depths of the Pacific Ocean although recent adjustments suggest it might be the Atlantic.
I’m “an old fart” who remembers the 1970’s when “the coming ice age” was the current panic…
Warmists have done a “Winston Smith” to re-write history, and convince us that, no, they were not predicting an imminent ice age in the 1970’s. We’ll know that the CAGW camp has conceded defeat, when they start insisting that, no, they were not predicting a runaway greenhouse back in the 1990’s.
vukcevic on August 24, 2014 at 10:42 am
More reading about Scotland and …
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caledonian_orogeny
Pamela Gray says:
August 24, 2014 at 8:11 am
German spelling has nothing at all to do with Gaelic orthography. Gaelic just has a smaller alphabet than most other European languages.
In German, the letter W is pronounced V and the letter V is pronounced F, as too is the letter F. Also in Dutch. W is pronounced V in Nordic languages as well, but in Swedish, V is more like B (as in Spanish), while it’s V in Norwegian and Danish.
I knew the End Was Near when I found, in my local Fresh Market in Florida, a special promotion of bags of haggis-flavored potato chips. (I could NOT have made that up.)
“So far, many new populations of rare fauna such as highland saxifrage, tufted saxifrage and wavy meadow grass have been recorded.”
Hmm, you’d think biologists would know that saxifrage are flora. Of course, it’s more likely the BBC’s reporter is too stupid to know the difference between plants and animals.
I expect there will be a climate scientist from Australia get icebound in it on a Russian air ship.
sturgishooper on August 24, 2014 at 3:43 pm
“… but in Swedish, V is more like B (as in Spanish), …”
– Since when? As a Swede …
(Confused this with Finnish people often have problems with words that includes “b” and they pronance it instead as “p”? Like “bank” [“bank”] -> “pank” [“broke”])
You bunch of scaremongering ……. peoples. This has been such a weak summer. I don’t want an ice age. Clive, make it go away. Besides we have a Semi formal outdoor event to host in late September and it’s starting to look like we should plan on serving hot Apple cider instead of chilled sauvignon (sp?).
Jimbo, just out of curiosity, what is the 2nd comment on this item?
To the “old fart” who remembers the “coming ice age”. My charming young wife and I were visitors to Edinburgh in early July 1969. After eating what passes for breakfast in Scotland, we ventured out for an early brisk walk. We were greeted with a stiff cold wind and snow flurries. The brisk walk was also brief as we were better prepared for a July in Delaware US.
Up here in the Frozen North, we just turned our furnace on today. I don’t remember doing that before September in other years.
Can someone send some of that ‘missing heat’ up our way?