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Al Gore is at it again. The man who claimed he was the father of the Internet has been predicting imminent doom and gloom at the climate change summit in Copenhagen.
The Arctic ice cap would be totally melted in seven years, declared the former U.S. politician, who was more or less canonized when his documentary on climate change An Inconvenient Truth won an Oscar and he received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Most lies don’t get challenged immediately. But unfortunately for Gore, the scientist whose research he spun, left him out on a limb.
Wieslaw Maslowski wondered how the figure had been arrived at and said he would never try to estimate the likelihood of anything as exact as that.
Gore’s office later admitted the 75% figure was one used by the climatologist as a ‘’ballpark figure’’ several years ago in a conversation with Gore.
British papers gleefully seized on the incident. At The Times of London, Philippe Naughton and Hannah Devlin report,
“Scientists rejected the claim, saying that it was at the extreme end of what credible science was predicting. ‘Over the last two years we’ve learnt that it’s very difficult to melt the oldest ice at the North Pole,’ said Professor Jim Overland, a leading oceanographer at the U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration.
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