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| Gore: Polar ice may vanish in 5-7 years |
| 2009-12-15 |
| New computer modeling suggests the Arctic Ocean may be nearly ice-free in the summertime as early as 2014, Al Gore said Monday at the U.N. climate conference. Northern polar sea ice has been retreating dramatically. These new projections suggest an almost-vanished summer ice cap much earlier than foreseen by a U.S. government agency just eight months ago. "It is hard to capture the astonishment that the experts in the science of ice felt when they saw this," former U.S. Vice President Gore told reporters and other conference participants at a joint briefing with Scandinavian officials and scientists, his first appearance at the two-week session. The group presented two new reports updating fast-moving developments in Antarctica, the autonomous Danish territory of Greenland, and the rest of the Arctic. "The time for collective and immediate action on climate change is now," said Denmark's foreign minister, Per Stig Moeller. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 Unimpressed the polar bears keep multiplying |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2009-12-15 19:16 |
| #8 I am kind of hoping Gore will vanish in 5-7 months. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2009-12-15 19:13 |
| #7 The London Times and other news outlets have called Gore on this BS. Unfortunately, the utterly false melting Himalayan glaciers threaten water supply for 1 bilion people claim still goes unchallenged. FYI, melting glaciers will increase winter and spring river flows when Himalayan rivers are at low water, and reduce summer flows when the rivers are in flood due to the Monsoon. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2009-12-15 15:44 |
| #6 And this is the man who could have been president. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-12-15 09:47 |
| #5 Didn't he say this 4-7 years ago as well? |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-12-15 09:46 |
| #4 The scientist Al Gore is 'quoting' responds: "ItÂ’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." |
| Posted by: Gerthudion Sleresh1214 2009-12-15 03:12 |
| #3 Yeah,I've got Gore's computer model right here: C:### |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2009-12-15 02:30 |
| #2 New computer modeling A rantburg deep cover agent has managed to get the source code of these models. Here it is. procedure model_version1 is begin put_line("Polar ice will melt. We are all doomed"): end model_version1; procedure model_version2 is begin put_line("Polar ice will melt. We are all doomed"); put_line("unless you deposit your savings in my swiss bank account"); end model_version2; |
| Posted by: JFM 2009-12-15 02:03 |
| #1 If you believe the earth's core is millions of degrees hotter than it is I imagine it is an easy step to imagine the polar ice vaporizing that quickly. Gore is a confused fellow dazzled by his own awards and bull$hit. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2009-12-15 01:04 |