Al Gore, the former politician masquerading as a renowned scientist, has done it again. He told attendees at the Copenhagen climate change summit yesterday that Arctic ice would be completely gone in five years. Gore cited Dr. Wieslav Maslowski as his source “that there is a 75% chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice free within five to seven years.”
As you can imagine, Gore’s assertion made headlines all over the world this morning and is being used by the-sky-is-falling crowd to demand another major take-over of world economies by government. There is only one little detail that Gore has to clear up: Dr. Maslowski has made no such claim. He told the few reporters who actually called him that, “It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at. I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”
When told about Gore’s claim, Dr. Jim Overland, a leading oceanographer at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, responded, “This is an exaggeration that opens the science up to criticism from skeptics.” You have that right, professor!
Here’s the amazing thing, my friends: Al Gore is still given credibility. A month ago he claimed that the interior of the earth “is extremely hot, several million degrees.” But most scientists believe the temperature of the earth’s core is 5,000 degrees Celsius while some contrarians argue it is 9,000 degrees Celsius. If the core of the earth were several million degrees, the earth would be a star! Of course the upside would be that Al Gore would no longer be walking around spouting nonsense and calling it science.
Al Gore is getting very rich on his sham science. In fact, he is well on his way to becoming the world’s first global warming billionaire. But if his policies become law, the rest of us will be very poor.
Gary Bauer
Campaign for Working Families
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