There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday and frankly made AN ARSE OF HIMSELF.
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.”
However, the climatologist whose work Mr Gore was relying upon dropped the former Vice-President in the water with an icy blast. “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.
This subject is TOO IMPORTANT FOR POLITICIANS. Especially FUCKING OLD HAS-BEENS. We have to have a WORLDWIDE SCIENTIFIC SEMINAR where politicians are not allowed, to thrash this subject out ONCE AND FOR ALL. If it's happening, we have to do something about it. But, if it's not, we can't SACRIFICE OUR FUTURE PROSPERITY to stop something that's NOT GOING TO CHANGE OUR LIVES!
