Gore: Polar ice may vanish in 5-7 years

AP on Yahoo ^ | 12/14/09 | Charles J. Hanley - ap

[NormsRevenge]

COPENHAGEN – New computer modeling suggests the Arctic Ocean may be nearly ice-free in the summertime as early as 2014, Al Gore said Monday at the U.N. climate conference. This new projection, following several years of dramatic retreat by polar sea ice, suggests that the ice cap may nearly vanish in the summer much sooner than the year 2030, as was forecast by a U.S. government agency eight months ago.

One U.S. government scientist Monday questioned the new prediction as too severe, but other researchers previously have projected a quicker end than 2030 to the Arctic summer ice cap.

"It is hard to capture the astonishment that the experts in the science of ice felt when they saw this," said former U.S. Vice President Gore, who joined Scandinavian officials and scientists to brief journalists and delegates. It was Gore's first appearance at the two-week conference.

The group presented two new reports updating fast-moving developments in Antarctica, the autonomous Danish territory of Greenland, and the rest of the Arctic.

[NormsRevenge]

The Earth has a fever, yaknow.

[Always Right]

Wouldn’t be the first time.

[NormsRevenge]

Reckun it's a little hot under all them lights eh, Al?

and the scrutiny..

Former US Vice President Al Gore wipes his forehead as he speaks at a presentation on melting ice and snow at the UN Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen December 14, 2009. REUTERS/Bob Strong (DENMARK - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)

[kromike]

I wish this Global Idiot would ‘vanish’ in 5-7 milliseconds.

[jessduntno]

“It is hard to capture the astonishment that the experts in the science of ice felt when they saw this,”

Hmmmmm...what was he holding when he said this?

[TexasFreeper2009]

It's more likely he'll spend 5-7 in the federal pen for fraud.

[Red Badger]

Ice floats. So does Sh!t...............

[clintonh8r]

Did G(wh)ore ever clean up the zinc pond on his property?

[ez]

Didn’t I just read somewhere that Arctic ice is at or beyond its’ average level?

[NormsRevenge]

The Earth has a fever.

Former US Vice President Al Gore gives a speech during a presentation of a report on the melting of the
Greenland ice sheet, at the Bella center of Copenhagen on the the 8th day of the UN Climate Change Conference. Gore warned UN climate talks Monday that record melting of Polar and Himalayan ice
could deprive deprive more than a billion people's access to clean water.
(AFP/Attila Kisbenedek)

[CodeToad]

Someone needs to parachute his ignorant and stupid rear end over the North Pole.

[GeronL]

Al Gore is officially a moron.

[Night Hides Not]

I wish this Global Idiot would ‘vanish’ in 5-7 milliseconds.

Beat me by a hundred seconds, give or take.

[Red Badger]

[randog]

Well, according to the “scientific consensus”, if the polar ice melts then the oceans rise. If the oceans rise then coastal habitats get wiped out.

How many Hollywood enviro-lefties put their Malibu digs up for sale upon hearing this news?

[Gettin Betta]

Better send them some money then!

[Perdogg]

[dumpthelibs]

OwlGore would know the reason for this melting since the earth is a million degrees just a few kilometers down from the surface! These hucksters are pulling out all stops... e.g. the ice caps disappearing, the poor koala bears and penguins at risk (we found out that poplar bears aren’t cutting it), the rise in sea level (although no one is seeing it). They are shameless and if we were a society with convictions and integrity, we’d punish them for their fraud. Instead we let them run around like village idiots spewing their lies.

[GeronL]

Me too. The ice is apparently getting thicker. Sunspot experts say its going to be a cold decade.