Al Gore predicted direly that “new” information coming to his attention predicts an ice free arctic in 2014. Oh no!!! Stifle all economic activity! Return to being hunter/gatherers—better yet, just gatherers!
One little problem: The professor upon whose work Gore’s hysteria was based, says he didn’t actually predict that. From the story:
Speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, Mr Gore said new computer modelling suggests there is a 75 per cent chance of the entire polar ice cap melting during the summertime by 2014. However, he faced embarrassment last night after Dr Wieslav Maslowski, the climatologist whose work the prediction was based on, refuted his claims. Dr Maslowski, of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, told The Times: “It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”
Gore is clearly an obsessive hysteric happily grabbing onto any speculative bad news—which is what computer projections really are—to push the global warming religion.
Still, Gore is just merely the best known of a post modern archetype, in which the narrative of doom matters more than the actual facts on the ground. In this he is little different from many of the other leading climate “scientists” and their enablers in the international bureaucracy. Indeed, Professor Maslowski may have actually made the wild claim last year, just as Gore said, or perhaps, his work was exaggerated by the Danes. See here at Planet Gore over at NRO.
Whatever the case, the antarctic ice cap is growing and the North Pole ice even seems to be thickening again. Go figure.
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