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.”
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Never forget that the Propagandist was also a child killer.
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?
Even fewer know that now, more than a century later, this site is providing UK scientists with insights into climate change.
“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.
A lot of we thinks and we don't knows in this "established science".
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.”
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.
I take that statement to mean: Take a coat, it gets cold on top of that mountain at night.
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.
Sorry, I missed that gem even though I scanned for it. There’s your unicorn
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.
I proposed to my bride on Ben Nevis.
It was July.
It was snowing.
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