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12. "Some models suggest...75 percent chance...during some of the summer months"
Sun Dec 22, 2013, 10:31 PM
Dec 2013

Here's a video of Al Gore in 2009:



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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/12/14/COP15_Gore_and_Store_Report_on_Arctics_Melting_Ice

Former Vice President Al Gore references computer modeling to suggest that the north polar ice cap may lose virtually all of its ice within the next seven years. "Some of the models suggest that there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during some of the summer months, could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years," says Gore.

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It can be awkward to repeat all those qualifiers each time you give a talk, and that's true of any subject, what most people do is be specific once or twice, the rest of the time they will say "ice free in five years" because the audience understands all the qualifiers don't have to be repeated, they've been given the context, they don't need to hear all the qualifiers each and every time. Then if someone takes a video clip out of context it will seem wrong because it's taken out of context.


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