There is plenty of rare elements in Russia, and the UK is the only place on earth with all known natural elements. I think we were buying it because the Chinese were willing to mine it cheaply. They are so big into mining that they bought a mountain in South America and have moved into Africa exploiting en mass,
African report
Hardly good business partners.

"The (IPCC) scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders."

In fact, the date "2035" seems to have been pulled out of "thin air", from a non peer-reviewed article from the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF).

See bogus claim.

Now that's science!!!

Meanwhile, NASA quietly deleted the date reference (which they moved up to 2030 for the glaciers disappearing).

See the following pages about two-thirds of the way down (the entry referring to "The disappearing snowcap of Mount Kilimanjaro, from space."):

Before (from Google Cached pages)

NASA Site as it is now.

No explanation -- guess you can get away with changes if you do it secretly.

@littlepeaks,

specially for you, about an overheard phone conversation with a guy called Joe: http://climateprogress.org/2010/01/25/un-scie...lly-motivated/#more-17890

Read carefully and do not snip quote.

cheers

Weather is not climate.


For the 1000th time: irrelevant.

Dead wrong. You can't claim that because it's snowing there is nothing wrong with the climate. Just because it's snowing in the UK doesn't mean that it hasn't gotten warmer over the past 30 years. What do you expect? No winter? You're contradicting yourself. You said above "climate is weather averaged". Climate is a long term trend. You cannot derive any conclusions about the climate by selecting one point in a single area. You can't make any conclusion about the trend of a line on a graph from a single point. That's just simple math.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_weather.html


Weather is an immediate phenomenon. Climate is an average LONG-TERM TREND.

As we have all stated many times, just because something is a small percent doesn't mean it can't have a huge effect. Cyanide, a drop of ink in a glass of water, etc. Small amounts --> very very large effect. If you don't believe me, go ahead and put a drop of cyanide in your water today. After all it will be <.01% of the total volume of the water. If your fallacious assumption is correct, it's only a trace amount and should have no effect on you.

Your endless anecdotal accounts of weather are completely meaningless when discussing climate.

Now if you have anything to share other than what it looks like when you pop your head out the window, please do.