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2009-12-15 Science & Technology

Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don't add up

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Posted by tipper 2009-12-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#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|| 2009-12-15 00:26|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-12-15 02:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Antarctic Ice has increased 50% since 1980

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-12-15 04:37|| 2009-12-15 04:37|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-12-15 06:40|| Front Page Top

#5 It's only less in the area around a volcano.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-12-15 09:21|| 2009-12-15 09:21|| Front Page Top

#6 A round up of countervailing observations.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-12-15 09:58|| 2009-12-15 09:58|| Front Page Top

#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. Hes muttering to himself about the bearspolarbears as he kicks little snowballs."

Posted by Mullah Richard 2009-12-15 15:12|| 2009-12-15 15:12|| Front Page Top

#8 You've gotta love Lindzen's comment, Hes 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|| 2009-12-15 21:28|| Front Page Top

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