UPDATE: In a strange twist, Climate Depot reports that Brochure reveals Gore accurately cited scientist’s prediction of ice-free Arctic — It is the Scientist who has the explaining to do — not Gore
Marc Morano writes via email – This is turning into a war of phrases. Maslowski tells the UK Telegraph: “I was very explicit that we were talking about ‘near-ice-free conditions’ and not ‘completely ice-free conditions’ (as Gore claimed) in the northern ocean.”
Read details here
From the “Inconvenient Truths” department, the Times is reporting that Gore got called out for saying older figures on Arctic sea ice as “fresh” when they were not, and misrepresenting what the scientist actually said. This latest gaff makes three in a row for Mr. Gore, who recently made bizarre claims of the leaked CRU emails being “10 years old”, when there were many, many in the last decade, some in the last month. Gore also recently stated on national television recently that the Earth’s mantle was “several million degrees”, making it likely hotter than our sun.
As indicated by the Times article, his latest gaffe has not gone unnoticed by the MSM.
Excerpts of the Times article:
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.
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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.
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“This is an exaggeration that opens the science up to criticism from sceptics,” Professor Jim Overland, a leading oceanographer at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
“You really don’t need to exaggerate the changes in the Arctic.”
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[Maslowksi said] “I was very explicit that we were talking about near-ice-free conditions and not completely ice-free conditions in the northern ocean. I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this,” he said. “It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at, based on the information I provided to Al Gore’s office.”
Read the complete Times article here
Marc Morano of Climate Depot also has a take on it here
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My Caption Entry
Oh boy, maybe I should not have asked Joe Biden for a quote!
Caption entry:
Shoot! I must remember to take those IQ supplements that Tipper keeps telling me about.
When I heard Al Gore had written a poem, I was inspired to try my hand–well actually, to modify Edgar Allan Poe’s hand, in particular The Raven. What surprised me was the how appropriatley and fittingly Mr. Poe’s words apply to Al Gore/global warming. I believe Al Gore’s spirit and wisdom were channeled through me to my fingers.
THE DODO (aka The GOR’CLE)
A Takeoff of THE RAVEN by Edgar Allan Poe
(with apologies to Mr. Poe)
Once upon a storm front dreary, while I pondered, cold and teary,
Over quaint and curious e-mails of computer lore,
While I nodded, nearly snoring, suddenly there came a harping.
As of someone loudly harping, harping at my igloo door;
“Tis some peddler,” I so cursed, “harping at my igloo door;
All of that and a whole lot more.”
Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in a bleak December,
Cursing cold and wanting heat all the more.
Eagerly I wished the morrow, vainly I had sought to burn
All the poems of Albert Gore.
For the rare and radiant shepherd whom the angels named Al Gore.
Truthless here forevermore.
And the warming sad crackling of each glowing ember
made me dream of warmth galore.
So that now, to still the chatt’ring of my teeth, I stood repeating,
“Tis the Gor’cle entreating entrance at my igloo door,
Some half boar entreating entrance at my igloo door.
That it is, and nothing more.”
Presently my legs grew warming, hesitating then no longer,
“Sir,” said I, “or half bear, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is, I am freezing, and so loudly you came harping,
And so loudly you came harping, harping at my igloo door,
Through my frozen ears I heard you. “Here I opened wide the door,–
Darkness there, and nothing more.
Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, freezing
Doubting, cursing, thinking thoughts no mortals ever dared to think before;
But the harping was unbroken, and the loudness gave no token,
And the only words there spoken were the shouted words,
“It’s frigging cold.” This I chattered, and an echo murmured back the words,
“You got that right!” Merely this, and nothing more.
Back into the igloo turning, all my blood within me churning,
Soon again I heard a harping, something louder than before,
“Surely,” said I, “surely, that is something at my igloo door.
Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore.
Let my frozen bones get moving, and this mystery explore.
“Tis some hot air, nothing more.”
Open here I moved the ice door, when with many a lie and bluster,
In there stepped a stoutly Gore, of the V.P. days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But with mien of lord or saint, squatted by my igloo door.
Squatted by the bust of Earth, which he set upon my floor,
Squatted, and Squatted, and nothing more.
Then this Gor’cle beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance that it wore,
“Yes, thy lies be shown and proven,” I said, “you are loosin,
Ghastly, grim, and ancient Gore, wander from the frozen shore.
Tell me what the lordly name is on the coastline’s receding shore.”
Quoth the Gor’cle, “Fear for sure.”
Much I marvelled this ungainly foul to hear discourse so plainly,
Though his answer little meaning, little relevance bore,
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was cursed with seeing lies above his igloo door.
Lies and lies upon the sculptured bust beside my igloo door.
With such name as “Albert Gore.”
But the Gor’cle, squatting lonely by the bust, spoke only
Those three words, as if his soul in those words he did outpour.
Nothing further then he uttered; not a halo then he fluttered;
Till I scarcely more than muttered. “Please you DODO, close my igloo door!”
On the morrow he will leave me, as my warmth has flown before.”
Then the Gor’cle said, “Fear for sure.”
Startled at the stillness broken by reply so dumbly spoken,
“Doubtless,” said I, “what you selling, you debunk-ed boor?”
Caught from some unhappy master, whom unmerciful disaster
Followed fast and followed faster, till his lies one burden bore,—
Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore
Of “Fear for sure, Fear for sure.”
But the Gor’cle still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushion seat for his massive behind sore;
Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to thinking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what a load of bearshit more –
Meant in croaking “Fear for sure.”
Thus I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the foul, whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core;
This and more I sat divining, with my frozen head reclining
On the cushion’s velvet lining that his halo gloated o’er,
But whose halo brightness glowing with the halo gloating o’er
He shall press, ah, fear for sure!
Then methought, the air grew warmer, perfumed from an unseen gas
wafting from his big fat a$$, floated to the frozen floor.
“Wretch,” I cried, “thy God hath lent thee — by these angels he hath
Sent thee respite–respite by the heat of Earth’s hot core.
Quaff, O quaff this kind of bearshit, and forget the cold of yore!”
Quoth the Gor’cle, “Fear for sure!”
“Prophet!” said I, “think of evil!–prophet still, if God or devil!
Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate, yet all undaunted, on this frozen land forgotten–
On this home by icebergs haunted–tell me truly, I implore:
Will burning be my fate forevermore?–tell me–tell me I implore!”
Quoth the Gor’cle, “Fear for sure.”
“Prophet!” said I, “think of evil-prophet still, if huckster or devil!
By that heaven that bends above us–by that God we both adore–
Tell this soul with sorrow laden, if, within the distant future,
You shall clasp a painted maiden, whom the Danish call a whore–
Clasp a poor and sullied maiden, whom the Danish call a whore?
Quoth the Gor’cle, “You got that right.”
Be that word our sign of parting, foul or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting–
“Get thee back into the tempest and the land’s declining shore!
Leave no smoke plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my frozen soul unbroken! — quit thy evil by my door!
Take thy nose from oust thy butt, and take thy lard a$$ from off my door!”
Quoth the Gor’cle, “Fear for sure.”
And the Gor’cle, never flitting, still is squatting, still is squatting
By the burning bust just beside my frozen door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is scheming.
And the halo light o’er him streaming strains to reach the frozen floor,
And my soul from out that shadow that lies frozen to the floor
Shall be lifted — when you leave, you GOD DAMN BOOR.
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Al Gore is pathetic. The comedy gets worse every day.
DABbio (19:18:59) :
C’mon, everyone, best caption contest is now open.
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“I’m melting! I’m melting! My world! My world! My beautiful wickedness!”
Sean Peake (21:01:29) :
Actually, Gore is a Stock Puppet.
don’t insult sock puppets
No offense intended toward those whose hobbies/livelihoods include writing poetry, but between that climate poem and the out-there recent ‘factual’ mistakes I seriously think the guy has absolutely lost it. (Hey, I was an English major, and his poetry is just plain awful.)
IMHO, with ClimateGate, AGW has jumped the shark.
Caption? How about: “Keep my hand on my temple, my thumb on the altar” (it is a religion for the Rev. Gore, after all…)
-DY
PS-Maybe in Al’s mind, ‘AGW’ stands for ‘Al Gore Wins’; is it time to start using ‘AGL’? (Al Gore’s Lost it)?
Caption: “Cold, ……I feel so cold. Am I naked, is it just a dream? “
Picture Caption: “I didn’t say ice free, I said a$$ free.
Caption Contest:
No wonder I’m acting goofy. I’m still wearing Tipper’s underwear.
re: Reed Coray
Awesome. Just awesome. Thank you!
A horse, a horse, my thiefdom for a horse
Al should have worked harder to stay in Divinity School
Al Gore has been claiming the North Pole will be ice-free “within 5 years” since at least 2008. Here is a Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrPCUWWjh0c&feature=player_embedded
Let’s not restart the clock each time Gore repeats this. The rest of the AGW community generally distances itself from this claim … but Gore is their poster-boy. In the summer of 2013 we will see if Gore is more accurate than the IPCC in AGW predictions. The global temp projections made in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th IPCC assessment reports have all been proven wrong already … prior to the current El Nino the earth was cooler than the “best case” projections made in each of these reports … and still cooler than the average projection.
It seems to make more sense to focus on the IPCC failed predictions rather than those made by someone who took only two science classes in college (got a C in one and a D in the other).
Hank Hancock (20:44:35) :
“Getting spanked by AGW Scientist before entire world – Priceless!”
Getting spanked when he wasn’t wrong about what Maslowski said is worth even more. It’s his word against Maslowski.
He’s put his faith in people who will turn on him for little to no reason. Gore should be looking embarrassed. Scientists will *never* be pinned down on anything. They think they have the right to change their opinion as evidence changes. That’s fine, except when they alarm the world with “degrees of confidence”. Maslowski wants out, as can be seen in “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.” His words speak for themselves that he puts a high confidence level on melting by 2013. I see no reason to doubt Gore’s claim that “75%” is what he was told during a telephone call.
DABbio (19:18:59) :
C’mon, everyone, best caption contest is now open.
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“Why does there have to be a snow storm every f@*#%#g where I go!”
re: Mr. Artday
I have not seen a compelling, ‘tight’ description of how the continental ice masses formed. If you look at the current focal points of formation for the last ice age, there appears to have been unbelievable ice genesis on Baffin Island (feeding the sheets that extended to Wisconsin). This would require (as I understand it) accelerated precipitation–and so I find it plausible that an open Arctic Sea, combined with the ‘right’ prevailing wind patterns (Pamela Gray, you often talk about the jet stream–picture it running over Baffin 300 days out of the year), could indeed spur this. It doesn’t have to be cold everywhere; it’s often tropical at the foot of glaciers (such as in NZ–and yes, I recognize these are alpine, not continental, but it seems similar principles should apply).
Accelerate the glacier creation ‘engine’ on Baffin, and you have the potential for an ever-growing, high albedo microclimate–getting bigger and bigger. High albedo minimizing melt, and continuing ice creation at the source feeding the sheet.
I realize I may be smoking crack here, but since colder=drier, wouldn’t warmer=more movement of water to the land–and that ‘water’ being ice/snow at high latitudes (like Baffin)?
Here’s more proof that Prophet Gore is an “exaggerator”! This is something He has done continously and now a Scientist doesn’t want to be associated with this!!! Good for the Scientist, not for the Prophet and the AGW cause! With ClimateGate hanging over there heads, they surely do not need this…You have to remember, Alarmists have been stating for over 20 years now that we are going to burn up soon if something isn’t done about it!!! Well, they are STILL talking temperature increases of 1/100th’s of a degree over time…Prophet Gore first exageration was that He stated ” I helped develope the Internet….I think most people brushed the comment off….Now, you should start seeing a pattern….It’s very evident IMO…..
Picture caption:
Aghh! BRAIN FREEZE!!
Dave Wendt (19:28:03) :
BTW, a question I’ve never had a really reasonable answer provided for is what exactly will be the the catastrophe that results if all the ice in the Arctic does disappear one summer?
As I understand it, the problem is that the sun’s rays will be absorbed by the ‘dark’ ocean as opposed to reflected by the ice. That is a positive feedback, in essence, as once the ice goes, it gets even warmer, preventing a refreeze.
I have a number of issues with this theory:
1. The angle of incidence would possibly cause much of the light to be reflected anyway. Certainly at that angle much light is reflected in my experience (think sunset / sunrise over an ocean).
2. There is just NOT much heat from the sun up there anyway (hence the ice cap).
3. The ice cap actually keeps the warmer sea warm (this is what typically happens in lakes etc or fish would die – in fact this odd property of water, being lighter as a solid, is one of the reasons it is essential to life as we know it). If it melts, the sea would emit heat that would otherwise be trapped, thus reducing, wait for it …….. ‘Global Warming’!
I have seen a few theories bounced about here by more knowledgeable minds than mine, but that seems to be the essence if I recall correctly.
davidc (19:42:21) :
“If I stay still like this for 25 seconds everyone will have forgotten”
My abs are killing me from laughing!!
Doug in Seattle (19:45:40) :
Al Gore, Steven Schneider, Michael Mann, etc. will NOT go quietly, no matter how we would wish it.
I prefer that, that they are being dragged out of the room kicking and screaming “that we have no right and that this is a free world with free speech and such, how dare you, get your hands of me”, what goes around comes around gentleman.
As for the caption: George left his (read: my) office a year ago and i am still stuck here while Barrack Obama…. sigh!
Caption contest…
‘ OOoo brain freeze!!’
caption
“I wish I could invent something”
Being a Poe fan and acquainted with the great Vincent Price, that was excellent,
Reed Coray (21:17:17) ….