The Arctic Ice Free Within Five To Seven Years

Oh my God! What will the polar bears do?

Fear not our furry little white bear friend. It appears our savior, Al Gore may be, well, way off base on this claim.

In his speech, Gore told the conference: "Some of the models suggest to Dr. [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years."

As we all know "the debate is finally over" and so Al Gore must be right, unless of course he is wrong because he is manufacturing facts. You see Dr. Maslowski, climatologist, said. "I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this."

Gore's office later admitted that the 75 percent figure was one used by Dr. Maslowski as a "ballpark figure" several years ago in a conversation with Gore.

Oh an one of those flat earther guys, Richard Lindzen, a climate scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who does not believe that global warming is largely caused by man, said: “He’s just extrapolated from 2007, when there was a big retreat, and got zero.”

Well I am shocked. After all I have never known Al to be wrong about any of his data before. After all he's very precise, not a moron like George Bush. I mean just last month he told us that the core of the earth is "several million degrees."

Again am I ignorant to the fact that we are dumping hazardous waste into the atmosphere? No. Do I feel we need to do something about that? Yes but please let's be honest about what's going on. Don't point to a pony and tell me it's an elephant.

In September of 2007, there was a 25 percent reduction to the usual minimum ice cover. In the two years since, nearly all of the ice has returned.

A study of George VI Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula is the first to show that this currently ‘healthy’ ice shelf experienced an extensive retreat about 9500 years ago, more than anything seen in recent years. The retreat coincided with a shift in ocean currents that occurred after a long period of warmth.

The only empirical fact in this that the mean planetary temperature for the last ten years is 0.4 degrees C warmer than the 150 year average. CO2 is essential for almost every life form on the planet and now I'm told that this is the reason that the world is warming. Why not say pollutant X or pollutant Y is contaminating our rivers and streams? Instead we say something essential for life is killing the earth, killig us all.

In the meantime Al Gore and GE stand to get rich on the backs of polar bears. Run polar bears run.