Thursday, 29 January 2009












Thursday, 29th January 2009

A cooling ardour

8:13am

Since Nobel Prize-winner Al Gore produced his movie An Incomprehensible UntruthInconvenient Truth predicting the imminent end of the world through frying and drowning caused by man-made global warming, things haven’t exactly gone according to plan. The prediction was that as carbon dioxide levels continued to go through the roof (or should that be the stratosphere) the climate would continue to warm as a result, ice caps would continue to melt (with the North Pole becoming ice-free by 2008), polar bears would become extinct, glaciers would disappear and seas would continue to rise (by 20 feet in the near future, said Gore); and there was an unchallengeable scientific consensus that life on earth would gradually succumb to the catastrophic consequences of greed, big oil and the cosmic and diabolical evil of western capitalism.

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