The Copenhagen Clown, er, Climate Conference winds down today, leav ing Al Gore with egg on his puss.
Gore was addressing the assembled big-wigs earlier this week when he declared that “fresh” new research shows that there is a 75 percent chance that the Arctic will be “completely ice-free within five to seven years.”
The former veep cited Dr. Wieslav Maslowski of the US Naval Postgraduate School in California as his source.
But Maslowski himself says he has no idea what Gore was talking about — telling The Times of London: “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”
Gore later confessed: His assertion was based not on “fresh” research, but on a chat he had with Maslowski years ago.
So rest easy, polar bears. Goofy Gore notwithstanding, the end isn’t nigh.