Monday, December 14, 2009

Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don't add up - Times Online
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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Richard Lindzen, a climate scientist at the Massachusets 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.”
Copenhagen Climate Change Q&A - Video Library - The New York Times
New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin answers reader questions about the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen this week.
The lessons of climategate – Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development
Week two of the COP15 climate summit. The outcome remains uncertain. We now post a piece by FDSD Vice-Chair Ian Christie which cautiously welcomes the debate over ‘climategate’.

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