Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/18/2009 3:32:21 AM PST by Scanian
The Copenhagen Clown, er, Climate Conference winds down today, leav ing Al Gore with egg on his puss.
Gore was addressing the assembled big-wigs earlier this week when he declared that "fresh" new research shows that there is a 75 percent chance that the Arctic will be "completely ice-free within five to seven years."
The former veep cited Dr. Wieslav Maslowski of the US Naval Postgraduate School in California as his source.
But Maslowski himself says he has no idea what Gore was talking about -- telling The Times of London: "I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The Post really published this with that title?
I have a new respect for the New York Post.
Note that the “actual” conversation — if there was one — was at a party, years ago.
Which is particularly unfortunate timing, as the fact that it is indeed probably five or more years since that alleged conversation, and the ice caps are still there.
Gore is getting desparate. All his carbon credits are going down the drain. You have to laugh at the fool.
Nobody much likes navigating their website but there is usually some good - and often blunt - stuff in it.
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