From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Joe Public
Speaking of glaciers, this BBC report from eight years in the past was a bit extra balanced:
A glacier was nonetheless in place in Scotland inside the previous 400 years – 11,000 years later than beforehand thought – it has been instructed.
Dundee College geographer Dr Martin Kirkbride stated a glacier could have survived within the Cairngorms as just lately because the 18th Century.
Britain’s final plenty of slow-moving ice and snow have been understood to have melted 11,500 years in the past.
Dr Kirkbride studied the formation of corries within the Cairngorms.
A corrie is a basin-shaped function created by glaciations within the mountains.
Utilizing a way known as cosmogenic 10Be relationship, Dr Kirkbride confirmed {that a} small glacier in a Cairngorms corrie piled up granite boulders to type moraine ridges inside the previous few centuries, in the course of the interval of cool local weather generally known as the Little Ice Age.
Dr Kirkbride stated: “Our laboratory relationship signifies that the moraines have been shaped inside the final couple of thousand years, which reveals {that a} Scottish glacier existed extra just lately than we had beforehand thought.
“The local weather of the previous few millennia was at its most extreme between 1650 and 1790.
“There are some anecdotal stories from that point of snow overlaying among the mountain tops year-round. What we’ve now could be the scientific proof that there was certainly a glacier.”
Dundee College stated scientists had speculated that glaciers could have re-formed within the Highlands across the time of this Little Ice Age however laborious proof has proved to be elusive.
Dr Kirkbride teamed up with Dr Jez Everest on the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh, and the Cosmogenic Isotope Evaluation Facility on the Scottish Universities Environmental Reactor Centre in East Kilbride, to hold out the analysis.
Dr Everest stated: “That is thrilling information, as for the primary time we’ve proven that weather conditions in Scotland allowed glaciation inside the final half millennium, at a time when different glaciated areas, resembling Scandinavia, Iceland and the Alps noticed their glaciers develop to a few of their largest sizes because the finish of the final Ice Age.
“This has nice significance after we begin to reconstruct local weather change in Scotland and the broader area over the previous few centuries.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/information/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-25824673
It has truly been recognized for some years that glaciers reformed in Scotland in the course of the Little Ice Age. In 1982 HH Lamb wrote about this and the famines which resulted from the a lot colder local weather:
Local weather, Historical past and The Trendy World
That is the world that UNESCO would love us to return to!
