In 2007 and 2009, Al Gore predicted an ice-free Arctic in summer by 2014.
Gore predicts ice-free Arctic sea
Instead of ice-free, the Arctic minimum this year was up 36% since 2012.
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Al Gore’s brain was always one notch above or below that of a blithering idiot! In his later years his specialty is being fat. Footprint that!
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