From: Mittens Romney <robberbaron@invalid.ut>
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Subject: Re: "North Pole Could Be Ice Free In 2000, uh 2008, uh, 2014, uh,
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 12:25:14 -0600
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Alan wrote:
> I didn't say that.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/al-gore-history-climate-predictions-statements-proven-false
Al Gore has history of climate predictions, statements proven false
Gore said there was a 75% chance the entire north polar ice cap would
likely be gone by 2016
For example, Gore said during a speech at the Copenhagen Climate
Conference in 2009 that there was "a 75% chance that the entire north
polar ice cap, during some of the summer months, could be completely
ice-free within the next five to seven years." The former vice president
made similar comments at least twice before in speeches, citing research.
However, the Arctic ice cap hasn't been eliminated at any point over the
last decade. According to the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, the Arctic ice minimum extent, or ice coverage during
the warmest month of the year, is declining at 12.6% per decade.
In addition, in his 2006 global warming documentary "An Inconvenient
Truth," Gore predicted that the global sea level could rise as much as
20 feet "in the near future."
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Since 1880, the global sea level has risen 8-9 inches and, between
1993-2021, the sea level has ticked up 3.8 inches, according to the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). At that rate, it
would take approximately 1,136 years for the world's sea level to rise
20 feet.
Gore also claimed in 2006 that there would be no solving climate change
if drastic measures weren't taken around the world to reduce greenhouse
gases by 2016. However, annual global carbon emissions increased from
30.59 billion tons in 2006 to 35.52 billion tons in 2016 and 37.12
billion tons in 2021, according to the Global Carbon Project. Gore has
continued to argue for climate action to save the planet.
"Well, some changes, unfortunately, have already been locked in place,"
Gore said when asked by ABC News about the prediction in 2019. "Sea
level increases are going to continue no matter what we do now. But, we
can prevent much larger sea level increases â much more rapid increases
in temperatures."
Former U.S. vice president and climate activist Al Gore
Al Gore delivers a speech at a United Nations climate summit in Poland
on Dec. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
And in a 2007 speech delivered in Norway after receiving a Nobel Peace
Prize for his work informing the public about the dangers posed by
climate change, Gore noted research that said the Earthâs average
temperature would increase by "many degrees" if the amount of carbon in
the atmosphere doubled.
Scientists, though, have projected the world's temperature to increase
by at most 2.9 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial period by 2100
when the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is expected to
double, the New York Times reported in November. That would amount to an
increase of 1 degree Celsius compared to 2022, according to the NOAA.
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In the same speech, Gore warned that stronger storms would continue to
threaten entire cities. However, there has been a slight downward trend
over the last 30 years of the Accumulated Cyclone Energy index, a tool
used to measure tropical storm activity around the world, according to
meteorologist and NOAA's former chief scientist Ryan Maue.
"The climate movement's real weakness is that, besides the intellectual
bankruptcy of what they're trying to do, is that they're led by these
clowns like Al Gore and John Kerry and Joe Biden," Steve Milloy, a
senior legal fellow at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute and
publisher of JunkScience.com, told Fox News Digital in an interview.
"They say such extreme things â and all the institutions, the government
and the media. How do they ever walk any of that back?" he continued.
"The answer is they can't. So, they've got to move forward providing cover."
Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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