Oops!!

(Dec. 15) --- It is an inconvenient time for Al Gore to be fudging numbers on global climate change.

With the specter of the "Climategate" e-mails hanging ominously over the Copenhagen climate change summit, the former vice president told a crowd there on Monday that one scientist had predicted the polar ice cap would have no summer ice in five to seven years.

"These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr. Maslowski that there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven  years," Gore told the audience.

But the scientist Gore quoted, Dr. Wieslaw Maslowski, of the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, told the Time of London that he never said such a thing.

"It's unclear to me how this figure was arrived at," Maslowski told the Times. "I would never try to estimate likelihood of anything as exact as this."

(Source:  Dana Chivvis, Contributor, AOL)

OOPS!!  Hmmmm.....No wonder he doesn't "have time" to discuss this with John Stossel.....