In 2007 the Nobel Peace Prize was shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former US Vice President Al Gore "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change".
During his Dec. 10, 2007 acceptance speech, Gore proclaimed that the Arctic's summer ice could completely disappear by 2013 due to global warming caused by carbon emissions. He said, thus:
"Last September 21 (2007), as the Northern Hemisphere tilted away from the sun, scientists reported
with unprecedented alarm that the North Polar icecap is, in their words,
'falling off a cliff.' One study estimated that it could be completely gone
during summer in less than 22 years. Another new study to be presented by U.S.
Navy researchers later this week warns that it could happen in as little as
seven years. Seven years from now." (Watch Nobel Prize video from 1:28:40)
He also warned that rising
temperatures were “a planetary emergency and a threat to the survival of our
civilization.”
The opposite came
But his "ice-free by 2013" speech was already proven off - by 920,000 square miles.
Gore and IPCC sharing the Nobel in 2007. |
But his "ice-free by 2013" speech was already proven off - by 920,000 square miles.
Satellite photos of the Arctic taken by NASA in August 2012
and August 2013 show a 60 percent increase in the polar ice sheet, more than
half the size of Europe, despite “realistic” predictions by climate scientists as mentioned, that the North Pole would be completely melted by then.
Instead of shrinking, the NASA photographs clearly show that
the Arctic ice sheet is much larger than it was. The
thick layer of summer ice, which currently stretches from Canada to Russia, is
preventing ships from using the North-West Passage.
Then last year, ice concentrations on the South pole are at record levels. Which is apparently why "global warming" became "climate change" when they figured out that the false claims would not occur.
Clearer today
As of today, the South Pole icepack concentrations are rapidly growing to record levels in what will probably now trigger new discussion on "global cooling" or even the coming of a "mini-ice age". Of course that's still consistent with the euphemism known as "climate change" which is confusing as climate is always changing, but certainly millions of miles away from "global warming".