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| Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don't add up |
| 2009-12-15 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #8 You've gotta love Lindzen's comment, “He’s just extrapolated from 2007, when there was a big retreat, and got zero.” After all, with logic like that of Maslowski & ilk, the US will be job-free by 2020... |
| Posted by: logi_cal 2009-12-15 21:28 |
| #7 As one commenter over at Hot Air puts it: "I have a vision of al gore meandering aimlessly across an ice floe wearing nothing but a robe and flip flops. HeÂ’s muttering to himself about the Â…bearsÂ…polarÂ…bearsÂ… as he kicks little snowballs." |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2009-12-15 15:12 |
| #6 A round up of countervailing observations. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-12-15 09:58 |
| #5 It's only less in the area around a volcano. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2009-12-15 09:21 |
| #4 My understanding is that while the extent of Antarctic ice is greater, it is substantially thinner over that extent BP. So it's not clear that that is a counter argument to the GW thesis. |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-12-15 06:40 |
| #3 Antarctic Ice has increased 50% since 1980 |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2009-12-15 04:37 |
| #2 Could somebody just shove him out onto an ice flow with a couple of starving polar bears already? |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-12-15 02:17 |
| #1 this comment at that site: "There is a 75 per cent chance that Al Gore, during the summer months, could be completely fact-free within five to seven years.” |
| Posted by: 3dc 2009-12-15 00:26 |