Tuesday, January 06, 2009,4:43 AM
Where's Al Gore?
Didn't Crazy Al "win" a Nobel by putting together a really cute slide show that depicted melting ice caps and Arctic destruction on a scale the likes of which humanity has never seen before?

And wasn't it Mr. Gore who said "The entire north polar ice cap will be completely gone in five years"?

For those who don't believe it, see it:


I wonder how The Global Warming Herald of Doom and his many acolytes (especially in the press and in Washington) square that prediction with this FACT:
Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979
By Michael Asher, DailyTech

Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close.

Ice levels had been tracking lower throughout much of 2008, but rapidly recovered in the last quarter. In fact, the rate of increase from September onward is the fastest rate of change on record, either upwards or downwards.

The data is being reported by the University of Illinois's Arctic Climate Research Center, and is derived from satellite observations of the Northern and Southern hemisphere polar regions.

Earlier this year, predictions were rife that the North Pole could melt entirely in 2008. Instead, the Arctic ice saw a substantial recovery. Bill Chapman, a researcher with the UIUC's Arctic Center, tells DailyTech this was due in part to colder temperatures in the region. [link]
Colder temperatures in the region. Hmm. That wasn't supposed to happen.

Does this mean Al Gore has to give his Nobel back?
 
posted by Jerry Fuhrman
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