Gore's Fumble Recovery: Ice Estimate Just "Ballpark"

Channeling Joe Biden?

COPENHAGEN , Denmark, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has admitted that alarming figures on Arctic icemelt he cited in Copenhagen, Denmark, were only "ballpark"...

... The newspaper said Gore's office later admitted that the "75 percent" figure was one used by Maslowksi as a "ballpark figure" several years ago in a conversation with the former vice president.

Admitted? He's not admitting anything, he's doubling down and claiming again this is what Maslowski said, just calling it a "ballpark" estimate.

Of course, Maslowski is a true believer - he absolutely pushes the "settled science". He does believe we're causing Arctic ice to wither away and wants Copenhagen treaties and CO2 emission schemes, all that crap. It's just he's not a total douche like Gore and doesn't want to sound like an idiot with outrageously exaggerated claims ballpark estimates. Gore has no such problem with hyperbole.

My currrent bank account balance? Four thousand seven hundred dollars (ballpark estimate). Roughly next spring's shoe budget, also ballpark.

Percentage of Daily Dish Posts written by Excitable Andi? 100% (ballpark estimate).

And this thing on my back? Just a little beauty mark is all. Dime-sized.

Ballpark. Estimate.

posted by Ace at 01:33 PM

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