An Accurate Report?

Weekly Example of Media Bias   —   Posted on December 16, 2009

…the Times of London reports that Al Gore seems to be making stuff up:

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.

In his speech, Mr. Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr. [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven 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.”

The Associated Press reports on Gore’s statement without bothering to mention that Maslowski says they’re poppycock. …

Read the original post at OpinionJournal.com. (Scroll half way down the page to “The Blair Standard.”)