- ...for his "supporters" to get their heads out of their asses?
- Al Gore feels the heat after global warming flub
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Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a regular dose of international punditry at its finest. 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.
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