Posted on 12/14/2009 4:55:18 PM PST by 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.
Its 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 Gores 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 Anglias Climate Research Unit, which appeared to suggest that scientists had manipulated data to strengthen their argument that human activities were causing global warming....
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
I want that Academy Award reversed!
OH, NOOO!
Al!
Is Santa going to survive?
Along with “the Earth’s center is several million degrees”
Along with “the Earth’s center is several million degrees”
If there is one thing Algore knows, it’s that he can lie, get caught, and libtards will keep believing him. He is a scumbag of habit.
ping for later
He says this data is ‘fresh’ but then admits that he was told this several years ago? LOL! Gore is a joke!!
His own reference called “BS”.
Epic Fail.
IMHO use of the term "scientists" for the fabricators of a hoax is akin to a high school biology prank. These so called "scientists" don't deserve the credentials they claim to possess. Authentic scientists would welcome contrary data and both sides of the argument would present their findings. There is no such room for disagreement with the "scientists" who fudge their figures, toss longstanding data in the trash and ponder among themselves how to deal (not pleasantly) with skeptics.
Hopefully real scientists are starting to see that ethics and the scientific method are what they got into the business for in the first place and will prevail, eventually.
For those lacking such a moral compass - maybe they noticed the water on the promonade deck and have started scrambling like the rats they are off the ship...
Is Santa going to survive?
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YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS
But he will be bringing your presents on his surf board...
Do you have a manmade lagoon in your back yard ????
No ???
Too Bad....
:)
When will the global warmists begin vetting their figures in earnest?
That one amazes me!!!
The Lame stream Media Never once questioned it.
But yet...Are u smarter then a 5th Grader TV show has that down pat!
The concept of AGW is, pardon the expression, sorta like a flea trying to rape an elephant.
This whole mess would be hilarious except for the attempt to extract big dollars from the US, which means from us poor taxpayers.
He also said we have a drill bit that WON’T melt at that level of heat.
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