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Surpise! Glaciers appearing in Scotland
WUWT ^ | 8/24/14 | Eric Worrall

Posted on 08/24/2014 5:34:47 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter

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.

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: algorism; climatechange; globalcooling; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; godsgravesglyphs; manbearpig; scotland; scotlandyet; uk
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1 posted on 08/24/2014 5:34:47 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter
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To: Straight Vermonter

It’s a slow motion train wreck carried out by PC idiots, but I repeat myself.


2 posted on 08/24/2014 5:36:20 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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Obviously global warming disguised as global cooling . . .


3 posted on 08/24/2014 5:38:02 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Vigilanteman

Nature is a Sneaky Pete!


4 posted on 08/24/2014 5:39:46 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
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To: Straight Vermonter
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.

Ah-HA!!! Just as my geology professor said it would happen!

Well, except that he told us it would happen in the 1980s… and after that failed to materialize, he became a global warming alarmist for the rest of his career…

But otherwise he was SPOT ON, and British Botanists conducting a Summer survey of Scotland’s tallest mountain, Ben Nevis prove it!

Mr. niteowl77

5 posted on 08/24/2014 5:45:13 AM PDT by niteowl77 (The five stages of Progressive persuasion: lecture, nudge, shove, arrest, liquidate.)
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To: Vigilanteman

Warm globally, cool locally! LOL!


6 posted on 08/24/2014 5:46:12 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Vigilanteman
That's why the language has to be managed by leftists, to sync up with the new reality. "Global Warming" becomes "Climate Change". It's all for control. Similar to what Orwell said in referring to "Newspeak":
"The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of IngSoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meaning and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods. This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and stripping such words as remained of unorthodox meanings, and so far as possible of all secondary meaning whatever."

7 posted on 08/24/2014 5:48:59 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Algore is deeply saddened by this unexpected turn of events, and will take a moment off from his lawsuit with Aljazeera to draft a strongly worded letter.


8 posted on 08/24/2014 5:49:39 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Ice ages are a well known intermediate effect of global warming. I’m sure the next IPCC report will clear this up.


9 posted on 08/24/2014 5:50:15 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: niteowl77
Do you remember that back in the "Earth is going to chill and we're all going to die" era that there was serious talk of spreading coal dust or other industrial byproducts on the advancing glaciers to reverse the process? Much like today, the global warming types all want us to have white or, at least, light colored roofs.

FWIW, last time I needed to replace a roof, we chose a dark, dark red just to thumb our noses at these idiots.

10 posted on 08/24/2014 5:52:03 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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11 posted on 08/24/2014 5:53:48 AM PDT by Brother Cracker ( Mossberg 500 helps me deal with being old and cranky)
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Damn global warming


12 posted on 08/24/2014 5:58:26 AM PDT by Raycpa
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That’ll happen. Global Warming is a wild card and can lead to any type of Climate Change. Of course, Climate Change always leads to government funding. That’s a given.


13 posted on 08/24/2014 5:59:28 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Raycpa

It’s always something...


14 posted on 08/24/2014 6:07:08 AM PDT by refermech
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15 posted on 08/24/2014 6:08:14 AM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: 1010RD

Gaia help us! We must soon surrender our freedom and prosperity to global overlord hyper-nannies and obediently accept our meager subsistence rations... and stop global warming... or we all gonna freeze to death!!!


16 posted on 08/24/2014 6:09:48 AM PDT by FiddlePig
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To: Straight Vermonter

This is great! The assclown gore is getting millions from the idiots that fall for his crap. the governments of the world that believe in this are worse than the dictators of old.


17 posted on 08/24/2014 6:10:12 AM PDT by Busko (One thing is certain, nothing is certain.)
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To: niteowl77

The last 2 summers have seen some snow at lower levels here in CO not melt. Some of the hiking paths we go on have snow stay over the paths all summer.


18 posted on 08/24/2014 6:13:20 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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19 posted on 08/24/2014 6:24:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is that legit?


20 posted on 08/24/2014 6:30:58 AM PDT by Buffalo Head (Illigitimi non carborundum)
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