Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don't add up (UK Press Catches Gore in a Fib)

TimesOnline.com (UK) ^ | 12/14/09 | Hannah Devlin, Ben Webster, Philippe Naughton

[Reaganesque]

There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday.

The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change “spin” row.

Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years.

In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.”

“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.

The embarrassing error cast another shadow over the conference after the controversy over the hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, which appeared to suggest that scientists had manipulated data to strengthen their argument that human activities were causing global warming....

[seawolf101]

NOW THERE’S A HEADLINE.

AL GORE PREDICTS SANTA WILL HAVE TO CLOSE HIS WORKSHOP DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING!!!

AL GORE THE HOAXER AS THE GRINCH THAT STOLE CHRISTMAS

[Chode]

listen... warming, cooling, it was 50/50. so i took a shot!!!

Ohh WOE is me... whys everybody pickin on me???

[UCANSEE2]

Along with “the Earth’s center is several million degrees”

I bet he got that from his Theology School Teachers who told him he was going to hell and it was millions of degrees there.

[sand lake bar]

Ha! I just heard this story reported on Detroit radio WJR! Another Gore lie!