Carnival barker and multi-millionaire Al Gore has done very well for himself with the climate change hustle. Anthony Watts remindeds us of an event that happened ten years ago on December 14th, 2008:
Ten years ago, @AlGore predicted the North polar ice cap would be gone. Inconveniently, it’s still there
On December 14, 2008, former presidential candidate Al Gore predicted the North Polar Ice Cap would be completely ice free in five years. As reported on WUWT, Gore made the prediction to a German TV audience at the COP15 Climate Conference.
Al warned them that “the entire North ‘polarized’ cap will disappear in 5 years.”
Watch the video:
Here’s the polar ice cap extent today:
As you can see from the graph above, Arctic sea ice came nowhere close to disappearing during the summer minimum, and has rebounded to be within 2 standard deviations in the last few weeks.
Why does anyone still listen to him? Here is what our sun looks like today - the Planetary K-Index is a direct measure of solar output and it has been like this for the last two weeks:
The word that comes to my mind is flatlined
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