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]

Sorry I didn’t cc #35 to you. I meant to.

[JoeFromSidney]

Back in '99, I was visiting professor in Istanbul. In July, during a school holiday, I hired a driver and guide and took a tour of the part of Turkey near the Black Sea. At one point our travel over a mountain range was blocked by snow on the road so deep the van couldn't get through. I don't know if it all melted later, but it did surprise me to see that much snow that late in the season.

[Chickensoup]

The Presidential range in NH gets snow squalls all summer if conditions are right.

[donhunt]

IT’S WORKING!!! It’s working!!!
All of Algore’s hard work is paying off!!!
It’s a miracle!!!

[rktman]

Upper right corner. I musta missed the Soprano’s early episodes. :>} Wasn’t that back when we only had nbc,abc,cbs and pbs?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Straight Vermonter.

[TaMoDee]

Like you I lasted with a yearly subscription until 1983 when I couldn’t take the BS any more. Wrote’em a letter canceling and never looked back.

[null and void]

The neve of some people!

[wildbill]

Books, theories and articles about Jack are among the most prolific subjects in our media.

DNA is usually irrefutable evidence IMO but I’ll miss reading new book or watching a new movie about him

[wildbill]

I have no idea how my comment on Jack the Ripper got in this thread.

What I have here is a failure to refrigerate.

[Texan5]

“Neve is the first stage in the formation of glaciers, the team said.”

That was a duh moment and a laugh for me-”nieve” in Spanish is “snow”-and yeah, I’ve heard that is what starts glaciers in really cold places...

[gleeaikin]

The Washington, DC metropolitan area has had a cooler than usual summer. Wonder what the winter will bring? On the other hand it has been really hot many places on earth.

[skinkinthegrass]

"Hello, Royals, Ladies and Gents, Welcome to
Ben Nevis Ski Resort..Scotland's only Ski Resort"

[skinkinthegrass]

Jimmah "Maliase" Carter..walking brainless corpse, even then..he's 91. 😰

[ZULU]

Uh oh.

[SunkenCiv]

Freeze at last, freeze at last...