"Things could be very bad, " glaciologist Dr Gordon Hamilton tells me.

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"This is going to be a major problem, " Professor Gordon Hamilton of the Department of Earth and Environmental Studies at the University of Maine told BBC News Online.

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"It's probably a good time for Gordon Drummond to step up, " Hamilton told BBC Scotland afterwards.

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Hamilton's James McCarthy won the Young Player of the Year award, while Gordon Strachan was named Manager of the Year.

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