Al “Chicken Little” Gore is out-doing himself:
The Arctic polar ice cap could disappear entirely in the summer months in as little as five years, Al Gore, the former American Vice-President, said today.
Mr Gore was the star draw at a Copenhagen summit side event during which Scandinavian scientists delivered a grim update on the state of the Greenland ice sheet and its potential to contribute to rising sea levels over the coming century.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6956272.ece
Apparently, that’s just another one of Al’s embellishments:
……the climatologist whose work Mr Gore was relying upon dropped the former Vice-President in the water with an icy blast.
“It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at,” Dr Maslowski said. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”
Mr Gore’s office later admitted that the 75 per cent figure was one used by Dr Maslowksi as a “ballpark figure” several years ago in a conversation with Mr Gore.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6956783.ece
‘That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it’:
Al Gore stood by his claim yesterday that the North Pole could be ice-free within five years, attracting a storm of criticism from scientists and sceptics alike.
In an address to the Copenhagen summit, the former Vice-President of the United States quoted an international report published this year, which suggested that the North Pole could have lost virtually all of its ice by 2015.
His comments followed the “climate spin” row, which broke out after The Times revealed that in a speech on Monday Mr Gore appeared to have exaggerated scientific predictions to make them sound more alarming.
Wieslaw Maslowski, a climatologist at the US Naval Postgraduate School in California, on whose work Mr Gore based his claim that there is a 75 per cent chance that the North Pole will be completely ice-free within five to seven years, said that this was a misrepresentation of the information he had provided to Mr Gore’s office.
……Richard Lindzen, a climate scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who does not believe that global warming is largely caused by Man, said: “Why would you take anything that Al Gore said seriously? He’s just extrapolated from 2007, when there was a big retreat in the sea ice, and got zero.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6958290.ece
That’s the $64,000 question. Unfortunately, too many wackjobs have invested billions of dollars and lots of dogma into the “man-made climate change” racket. Don’t expect them to concede their idiocy any time soon.
My prediction is that within the next 5 years, it is proven that Al Gore is not only an irrelevant bag of hot air, but also finally seen as the snake oil salesman he is.