Surpise! Glaciers appearing in Scotland

WUWT ^ | 8/24/14 | Eric Worrall

[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.

[2ndDivisionVet]

1977, yes. You don’t remember it?

[Paisan]

Is that legit?

Yes it is.

I saved ALL my copies of Time magazine from the mid 60’s to the early 80’s.

When Time became the left wing rag that it still is, I stopped buying.

[1010RD]

Ah, Verdelujah! Another convert to the Cult of Gaia. My work here is done this day. ;-]

[Flag_This]

That particular issue was chock-full of stupid:

"Beyond Detente: Why We Can't Beat the Soviets"

[ThunderSleeps]

This just in, finding pulled from British botanists. ...

[2ndDivisionVet]

Remember who was president in 1977.

[mongo141]

Don’t worry, Global warming will take care of all of that, Scammer Gore said so./S

[ThunderSleeps]

That would have been even better had my “smartphone” not changed funding to finding for me.

[spokeshave]

"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow,and our planet began to heal.

Welcome King Barack "Canute" Obama the Great.....

...Obama issues an Executive Order to the Sun...

....to increase it's magnetic field....

and make a good crop of sunspots before elections in 2016....

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sunspot formation is triggered by a magnetic field, which scientists say is steadily declining. They predict that by 2016 there may be no remaining sunspots, and the sun may stay spotless for several decades.

The last time the sunspots disappeared altogether was in the 17th and 18th century, and coincided with a lengthy cool period on the planet known as the Little Ice Age....and lasted 400 years.

Good luck surviving with no electricity and GE modified seeds.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news203746768.html#jCp also

[denydenydeny]

Well whatever, just raise taxes and shut up.

[Flag_This]

"Remember who was president in 1977."

Okay. Fair point.

[Iron Munro]

This One Is A Fake This One Is Real
See: http://tinyurl.com/Fake-Time-Mag-Cover See: http://tinyurl.com/Time-Mag-Dec-24-1979

[Ditter]

I remember the global cooling talk from the 70’s. Speaking as someone from south Texas, I loved the idea. I’ll be just as thrilled if it happens now.

[Iron Munro]

Is that legit?
Yes it is.
I saved ALL my copies of Time magazine from the mid 60’s to the early 80’s.

It is a fake.

Here is the original it was Photoshopped from:

http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/2007/1101070409_400.jpg

[2ndDivisionVet]

[CrazyIvan]

Scotch and a good supply of ice. Proof God loves us.

[GeronL]

widdle baby glaciers.... oh so cute!

[ExCTCitizen]

Attention, Time Magazine, please make this as a cover story. (And you can reuse the 70s cover about Global Cooling - the Coming Ice Age).

[Buffalo Head]

Not according to Iron Munro. Care to revise your answer and offer an explanation?

[Winniesboy]

There’s nothing particularly remarkable about this one way or the other. Large snow patches survive most summers in the northern corries of the Cairngorms and the Ben. Over the years I’ve come across a number with neve-like characteristics: but it’s still a big step from neve to glacier. There’s evidence that a small remnant glacier may have survived as late as the 18th century in the great corrie of Braeriach.