Busted– Goracle Confronted on His Wacky North Pole Melting Claims
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, December 14, 2009, 9:07 PM
The Goracle told an audience in Germany last year that “the entire North Polarized cap will disappear in 5 years.”
It wasn’t the first time he’d made the claim. Gore had been talking this nonsense for over a year already.
Today, the climatologist whose work Mr Gore was relying upon disputed the former Vice-President.
The Times Online reported:
There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday.
The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change “spin” row.
Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years.
In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.”
However, the climatologist whose work Mr Gore was relying upon dropped the former Vice-President in the water with an icy blast.
“It’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.”
Mr Gore’s office later admitted that the 75 per cent figure was one used by Dr Maslowksi as a “ballpark figure” several years ago in a conversation with Mr Gore.
The embarrassing error cast another shadow over the conference after the controversy over the hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, which appeared to suggest that scientists had manipulated data to strengthen their argument that human activities were causing global warming.
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Published May 23, 2012 at 11:51 pm - 59 Comments
JRToday commented:
With the Earth’s core being like a million degrees, you would expect the North Pole ice to melt, wouldn’t you?
joe commented:
The scientific proof is in…. the science is settled… Al Gore is a quack and pushes junk science. Global warming and cooling is part of the earth historic cycles.
wow commented:
Popcorn anyone? I for one am enjoying this because I firmly believe that it’s very difficult to sustain a lie… and a whole slew of them, even harder!!! I’d like to see that windbag talk himself into oblivion. Unfortunately, that won’t happen because he has too much money (ill gotten) and will find something else to hawk!
gus commented:
Can we talk about the rise in Polar Bear populations?
Clearly a result of increased livestock in the tropics of northern Scotland, due to global warming.
Dell commented:
You can tell the man’s getting pretty desperate; as is the entire junk science community in Dopenhagen – now telling us that the proverbial “clock” is running out – as though it will all end tomorrow if we don’t send trillions of our dollars to their “developing countries” (Note: China is considered a ‘developing country’) to slay some fire-breathing dragon that Albert Gore – a politician and snake oil salesman, not a scientist – tells us is now breathing down our necks.
I’m looking forward to the final chapter. It started out as fiction and has turned into a total farce.
We can expect to see Al taking over for the late Billy Mays.
Jo commented:
I predict that GorBozo will spend another $16,000 + on his home’s energy bill -again this year.
Nathan R. Jessup commented:
Gus, you know better than that! We only discuss that which ‘supports’ the demise of the Country *wink*. This is a fear campaign, we can’t let facts get in the way, come on. “Fear” video here:
http://the-raw-deal.com/2009/11/26/greed-house-gas-released-to-the-public/
I agree with WOW, this thing is going to blow up, just not sure when. I say we just wait it out. Five years. If there is so much as an ice cube where the polar caps are, I’m calling, “bunk” on the Goracle! *again wink*
I think we should start a website for the prophet [Gore] and call it http://www.flatearth.com (it’s sure to be a-’round’ for a while). Honestly, this thing should end with Gore being eaten by a polar bear don’t you think? Fitting final chapter.
Nathan R. Jessup
http://www.the-raw-deal.com
robin4est commented:
The difference is…..I believe Billy Mays and the Sham Wow guy.
Al Gore??? Not so much.
Joanne commented:
Even if it were true that the polar ice cap would melt within five years, what does Gore think mankind could do about it anyway? Moron!
myna commented:
Did Al Gore also has stake in Phillips?
Beto commented:
Here’s todays arctic ice concentration satellite image.
Solaratov commented:
Just for fun:
(2/27/07 – NASHVILLE, TN) — Back home in Tennessee, safely ensconced in his suburban Nashville home, Vice President Al Gore is no doubt basking in the Oscar awarded to “An Inconvenient Truth,” the documentary he inspired and in which he starred. But a local free-market think tank is trying to make that very home emblematic of what it deems Gore’s environmental hypocrisy.
Armed with Gore’s utility bills for the last two years, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research charged Monday that the gas and electric bills for the former vice president’s 20-room home and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours.
“If this were any other person with $30,000-a-year in utility bills, I wouldn’t care,” says the Center’s 27-year-old president, Drew Johnson. “But he tells other people how to live and he’s not following his own rules.”
Scoffed a former Gore adviser in response: “I think what you’re seeing here is the last gasp of the global warming skeptics. They’ve completely lost the debate on the issue so now they’re just attacking their most effective opponent.”
Kalee Kreider, a spokesperson for the Gores, did not dispute the Center’s figures, taken as they were from public records. But she pointed out that both Al and Tipper Gore work out of their home and she argued that “the bottom line is that every family has a different carbon footprint. And what Vice President Gore has asked is for families to calculate that footprint and take steps to reduce and offset it.”
wanumba commented:
that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.”
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Oh! He’s slipping about here because he’s being cornered. The usual quote is a bit shorter, no “Summer” and no “completely ice free” and no “75%”.
It’s just, “The polar caps will completely melt in 5 years.”
It’s the South Park moment, “Half man, half bear and half pig.”
It SOUNDS fine in that intoning delivery, then it’s “… half? half? half? Wait a minute.”
All lawyer talk! The North Pole could melt 100% tomorrow and make zero sea level difference – it’s already displacing its mass, but it refreezes for winter. So flippin’ WHAT it melts in summer! So does my backyard POND.
And it’s -50F all winter, in dismal Arctic endless night.
Gore always makes himself scarce when the autumn leaves begin to fall.
AL Gore could intone, “Look there’s a butterfly” in such a manner that weak-minded people would dive for cover, quivering.
wanumba commented:
Solaratov
December 14th, 2009 | 11:06 pm | #13
…….
Cannot imagine HOW ANYONE can snarf up that much electricity for a RESIDENCE, unless he’s got a particle accelerator under his house.
wanumba commented:
Beto
Cool photo!
crosspatch commented:
There they go again using that phrase “hacked”. There is no evidence to date that anything was “hacked” as far as I know.
Corky Boyd commented:
Al Gore has always had a problem with the truth.
During the 2000 election he made up a story about his mother being forced to buy a prescription drug designed for veterinary use because it was one third the price of the of the version approved for human use. His story was intended to demonize the evil drug companies for price gouging.
The story began to fall apart when they asked which pharmacy in Washington quoted tthe price and he became evasive. It collapseed when somebody found the vet formula had only a third of the strength of the human.
Even the MSM was after him on that whopper.
crystal commented:
Kind of like Michael Moore weighing 1,000lbs, but calling Americans capitalist pigs.
Yeah. Right.
gus commented:
Dell… BINGO…..
If we don’t pass OPIE-PORKULUS right fuxing NOW, the SKY WILL FALL.
redux.
bg commented:
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it’s melting, uh, it’s icing, er, it’s melting, uh..
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bg commented:
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Nathan R. Jessup @ 9:55 pm #8
clip #2 & #3
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bg commented:
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oops re: bg @ 12:45 am #22
& clip #4
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Solaratov commented:
gus
December 14th, 2009 | 11:51 pm | #20
Dell… BINGO…..
If we don’t pass OPIE-PORKULUS right fuxing NOW, the SKY WILL FALL.
redux.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
But, Gus, Porkulus HAD to pass fast — so that unemployment wouldn’t go above 8%.
Er….wait…that may not be the best example.
I’ll get back to you on that.
Nathan R. Jessup commented:
Here is another classic Al Gore denial:
http://the-raw-deal.com/2009/11/23/talk-about-inconvenient/
How much has big Al made from climate fear so far? Wagers?
Nathan R. Jessup
http://www.the-raw-deal.com
Bill MItchell commented:
I fail to see how the possibility of AGW still even remains a viable issue in the scientific community.
All one needs do is look at the ice core record for the last 10,000 years and it is CLEAR that global temps rise and fall in a wave pattern on a regular basis and the current “hockeystick” is miniscule when compared to prior increases.
Mountainbear commented:
I was just reading a bit.
I’ve been comparing the percentages of how much CO2 we produce compared to other lifeforms on this planet rather often on this blog.
But here’s the real killer that shows that the whole CO2 “theory” makes no sense at all:
Earth: CO2 in the atmosphere ~0.04% of which mankind produces ~0.4% (I’m rounding up here, it’s actually lower than 0.04 and 0.4)
Mars: CO2 in the atmoshpere… 95%
Why is it colder on Mars? It has sooo much more CO2!
Or maybe it is… because the SUN’s influence on Mars is lower than on us, because we are CLOSER to the sun than Mars and thus get the brunt of her power, compared to Mars?
Mountainbear commented:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuj_tlRRQdQ
Lord Monckton opening a can of ass whoop on a Greenpeace chick, who has not the slightest idea about anything. As usual.
It’s fun to watch how she’s squirming in the end.
anonymous commented:
Al Gore is a fraud.
AllenS commented:
I’ll bet money, that Dr. Wieslav Maslowski will be dropped from the Gore’s Christmas card list.
maverick muse commented:
Gore hubnubs and then fabricates convenient memories of once upon a time conversations that never occurred.
Why would a scientist quote a ballpark figure instead of his exact finding from his research?
My disappointment is in the revelation that Dr. Maslowski of the US Navy is in on the climate ponzi scheme.
maverick muse commented:
Mountainbear, Lord Monckton is a pearl of great price.
The benevolent Lord Monckton shares the truth in subliminal earth shattering glory. But don’t take my word for it.
That McCain failed to read Monckton’s correspondence to him was McCain’s bane [archived @ American Thinker]. McCain, like Gore, relies on conversational briefings of polls, not even of scientific evidence, never his own research to verify the basis for decisions prior to mounting assaults like McCain’s comprehensive amnesty for illegal aliens.
2hotel9 commented:
Here is the ugly Truth.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
plainslow commented:
When you have an agenda, you sometimes hear only what you want to hear. It appears Mr. Gore has fell into that trap.
Sequoia commented:
I am SHOCKED…
The next thing you know, some wacky, tea baggin’ denier is going to say that Algore didn’t invent the internet. Rednecks…in all seriousness, does anyone know what Algore’s venture capital fund is called, and can we get a ticker on its performance?
DomesticGoddess commented:
Of course he said five years to scare people into funding his “green” companies. He stands to make billions off of this farce. I just want to take a pin and pop him!!!!
Hermie commented:
Gore has been making ‘the sky is falling’ claims for years. Remember, he made claims back in 2004 that the sea levels would severely rise in 10 years. Well, it’s been 5 years and by now there should be SOME proof that can easily be seen by the naked eye. But Gore keeps moving the goalposts and keeps cranking up the hysteria, in a desperate attempt to cash in on his carbon-trading con game.
Hedgehog commented:
Big Al’s final argument will be: ” Don’t come crying to me in 400 years when the earth’s temperature has increased by .02 degrees. I won’t sell you any carbon credits.”
What an idiot.
squeaky commented:
during a murder case, i wondered how 2 experts
testifying under penalty of perjury could have
opposing testimony – it was explained that if one thought there was a 1% possibility – they weren’t perjuring themselves. with climategate
maybe a bigger picture allows so called experts
to justify fudging the facts. the all encompassing agenda………..
Palinfan commented:
I wonder if Maslowski rushed to disassociate himself from this nonsense because of the amount of publicity climategate has received. No longer can they just hang back and let idiotic statements float. Because these scientists get hung quick on the blogs and internet news sites.
Valerie commented:
Oh, how about that melting icecap that’s growing? http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/14/a-look-at-sea-ice-compared-to-this-date-in-2007/
bg commented:
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Valerie @ 9:04 am #45
re: [Oh, how about that melting icecap that’s growing? ]
oh i don’t know Valerie..
maybe it’s just a pretty lie..
ps: loved this comment by Jim B in Canada:
“How can I help seeing what is in front
of my eyes? Two and two are four.”
“Sometimes, Winston.
Sometimes they are five.
Sometimes they are three.
Sometimes they are all of them at once.
You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”
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Valerie commented:
If AGW is real, we should see weather differences correlate with population density. So, what’s the evidence that, for example, New York and Tokyo affect the weather?
Just askin’.
Chisum commented:
More lies from the left. Credibility thy name is the MSM.
This is hysterical!
Charles Jaco Threatens Blogosphere Over CNN Video?
http://thedanashow.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/charles-jaco-threatens-blogosphere-over-cnn-video/
bg commented:
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“global global global”
[Climate Cult and global change catastrophe hysteria in Copenhagen (how about China’s one-child-per-family quota?); “global global global” (Al Gore, John Holdren); “less meat, less heat” mantra; and Ahmadinejad-Chavez-Mugabe’s “commitment” to saving the planet.
[..]
Posturing Babel: John Batchelor commented on his blog:
Al Gore’s silly misstatement that the North Pole ice cap will disappear in five years underlines a very bad few days for the UN Climate Change Summit. The Chinese and American ambassadors are exchanging verbal blows such as “irresponsible” and “ignorant.” The UK ambassador declares that China is non-transparent and therefore untrustworthy on greenhouse emissions. The UN Secretary-General spoke of “posturing.”
Coral Davenport, CQ, reported Monday 14 from the convention center that the poor nations walked out, the rich nations were confused, stymied, troubled, and that there was no agreement on anything, not the money, the targets, the facts, the end time.
Another rousing demonstration of one-world government in Babel. Chilly and surly world leaders arrive in days to what promises to be a subdued rage of the malcontent. North Pole at risk at Christmas, Al Gore’s farewell to Santa.]
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Babsy commented:
10: “Even if it were true that the polar ice cap would melt within five years, what does Gore think mankind could do about it anyway? Moron!”
Why pay more taxes of course! More taxes is always the liberal solution to any problem!
Fred Beloit commented:
Al Gore already has a new business. He is opening a new chain of clinics across the entire European Union. The enterprises are to be named The Academy Award Fart Clinics.
Chisum commented:
Hollywood Producer Urges Celebs to Target Joe Lieberman’s Wife **UPDATE** HuffPo Repostsby Big Hollywood
What’s the difference between the Mafia and a Hollywood Leftist? …the Mafia doesn’t go after your family
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/12/14/hollywood-producer-urges-celebs-to-target-joe-liebermans-wife/
bg commented:
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Mountainbear @ 2:08 am #28
very civil, at least she’s not a “nutty” nut case,
not to mention honest as to her “faith” in GW..
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bg commented:
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Chisum @ 9:29 am #48
CNN fraudulent reports??
nah, couldn’t be..
Chisum @ 11:40 am #52
why they’re as ethical as Obama,
D-Congress & HuffPo ya know..
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Neo commented:
Wonder why there has been so much press claiming the CRU emails contain nothing.
First, take a look at this …
… then, take a look at email 1256765544.txt
Chisum commented:
bg @ 54.
I hurt myself laughing over that CNN video. I give them an E for effort!
(Btw, I hope you are well.)
Joanne commented:
It all comes down to this – the earth’s population falls into two categories – those of intelligence and those of stupidity. It is rather interesting that the leftards, those who profess to hold scientific facts above all else and regard others as inferior, religious folks, don’t use scientific facts when those facts don’t agree with their own ‘religious beliefs.’
Chisum commented:
More Inconvenient Truths!
Lying About Climate Change
The despicable Al Gore features in this story of how climate alarmists have knowingly and persistently lied to support their cause (or obsession). But so do prominent scientists who presumably should be held to a higher standard. Paul Reiter, a professor of medical entomology, writes in the Spectator.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/12/025166.php
Chisum commented:
They Don’t Love Nature – They Just Hate Mankind
The apotheosis of enviro-mentalism is Globaloney itself, of course; and its synecdoche is found in ClimateGate: erstwhile climate “scientists” became so absolutely certain that human technology is destroying the Earth that when the evidence just wouldn’t behave — when other scientists kept asking inconvenient questions and finding confounding and complicating answers — the true believers started falsifying the science, blocking independent investigation, banning publication by the wrong sorts, destroying the careers of “deniers,” and ultimately, so utterly politicizing the field of AGCC research (anthropogenic — “man caused” — global climate change) that today we face a mandated energy cut-off that could hurl us back into the Dark Ages.
At the core of enviro-mentalism is an arrogance so intense and narcissistic, it mimics the hubris of classical Greek theater: The AGCC inquisitors literally seem to believe they can remake the Earth by signing a treaty, passing a law, or electing one of the anointed. After all –
This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth.
Environmentalism became a religion long before the rise of “global warming;” in fact, even before the earlier exercise in catastrophism, “global cooling.” The Endangered Species Act of 1973 was not the beginning, it was just the warning shot that should have been heard round the world, but was ignored. I suspect the First Church of Fundamentalist Enviro-Mentalism was founded in the early 19th century, wrought by the Romantics and their anti-industrialism nature-worship.
But it’s finally come to the boiling point today. And unless we find the guts and the will to turn off the heat — and if necessary, identify the lunatics who want to cleanse the planet of pesky humanity and exile them from the halls of science, politics, and the judiciary — we’ll all be boiled in our own primordial soup.
http://biglizards.net/blog/archives/enviromental_cases/