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The hidden history of the UK's highest peak
BBC "News" ^ | March 26, 2018 | By David Cox

Posted on 03/27/2018 8:28:06 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Each year, 150,000 people hike Scotland’s Ben Nevis – a former volcano and Britain’s highest mountain, at 4,400ft above sea level. Many opt to take the so-called tourist trail, the rocky path which winds and zigzags its way to the summit. Few realise that this path was initially carved out in 1883 for a very unique scientific expedition. Even fewer know that now, more than a century later, this site is providing UK scientists with insights into climate change.

Today, we have advanced weather forecast models – which are capable of using the kind of data taken at Ben Nevis to generate three-dimensional pictures of the atmosphere. Climate scientists now hope to use these models to re-observe famously severe storms from more than a century ago, such as a 1903 storm which wreaked havoc in Ireland before passing right over the top of Ben Nevis the following day.

“Many of their scientific contemporaries were involved in planning Arctic or Antarctic expeditions but these guys were pioneering explorers of the atmosphere,” says Ed Hawkins, professor of climate science at the University of Reading.

Today, plans are underfoot to build a new modern observatory on the ruins on the former site – albeit with automatic measuring devices rather than human inhabitants. “We haven’t had any long-term observations up there for a long time now, and this would give us information straight away on how the climate at the top of the mountain has changed,” Hawkins says. “We think that the high altitude regions are some of the places where we’ve seen the largest changes in temperature.

“This could tell us a lot.”

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bennevis; gerbilsswarming; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; goebbelswarming; gorebullwarming; hoax; junkscience; propaganda; scotland; scotlandyet; socialism

1 posted on 03/27/2018 8:28:06 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Never forget that the Propagandist was also a child killer.


2 posted on 03/27/2018 8:37:40 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I am a trained weather observer. The article was very interesting. Reminded me of our Mt Washington weather observation station.

I don’t “get” what the Goebbels insinuation has to do with the article. Did you read the article?


3 posted on 03/27/2018 8:53:22 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Cold Heart
I don’t “get” what the Goebbels insinuation has to do with the article. Did you read the article?

From the excerpt of the article you just read:
Even fewer know that now, more than a century later, this site is providing UK scientists with insights into climate change.

4 posted on 03/27/2018 9:18:09 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie; Cold Heart
And further:
“We haven’t had any long-term observations up there for a long time now, and this would give us information straight away on how the climate at the top of the mountain has changed,” Hawkins says. “We think that the high altitude regions are some of the places where we’ve seen the largest changes in temperature.

5 posted on 03/27/2018 9:19:12 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Cold Heart
Goebbels was a amateur climatologist perhaps?
6 posted on 03/27/2018 9:21:52 AM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“We think that the high altitude regions are some of the places where we’ve seen the largest changes in temperature. “This could tell us a lot.”

A lot of we thinks and we don't knows in this "established science".

7 posted on 03/27/2018 9:24:43 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SoConPubbie; Cold Heart
From the article at the site:
Hawkins says. “Going back in time and looking at the storms of that period enables us to compare with the storms of today, and look at the potential changes which have resulted from human-driven warming of the atmosphere over the past century.”

8 posted on 03/27/2018 9:33:20 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
And this little gem was buried in this article:
And so thousands of volunteers across Europe have helped digitise the observations over a period of just 10 weeks in autumn 2017.
So much for the scientific method.
9 posted on 03/27/2018 9:41:07 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

I take that statement to mean: Take a coat, it gets cold on top of that mountain at night.


10 posted on 03/27/2018 9:54:44 AM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: SoConPubbie

All that tells me is “climate change” is a trigger word for you.

Climate changes, it is not static. No where in the article is there insinuation of windmills or unicorns.


11 posted on 03/27/2018 10:07:00 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: SoConPubbie

Sorry, I missed that gem even though I scanned for it. There’s your unicorn


12 posted on 03/27/2018 10:08:42 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I suggest cutting down Britain’s highest mountain to say sea level. This will allow the weather pattern to stabilize and Greenland will again be green and vineyards can be planted in England and the English can get a tan.


13 posted on 03/27/2018 2:34:20 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

I proposed to my bride on Ben Nevis.

It was July.

It was snowing.


14 posted on 03/28/2018 10:21:13 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan
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