Al Gore Confronts An Inconvenient Truth

From the Times of London:

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.

…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.”

This is how the New York Times covered it, in one sentence near the end of the article: “In an appearance here Monday, Mr. Gore cited new research suggesting that changes in the climate could render the Arctic virtually ice-free as early as 2014, although American government scientists place that outcome on a longer time frame.”

Dennis Prager: “It gives you an idea how they cover up for the Global Warming crowd and how much it affects New York Times news reporting.”

The New York Times has since removed this sentence from its report without making a correction.