Al Gore's Blog He's Insane

Insane!

"But those high-altitude observations need occasional reality checks from scientists down on the surface. It was during one such on-the-ground research expedition last fall that David Barber, an Arctic climatologist at the University of Manitoba, got an unwelcome surprise." "Barber was aboard the Canadian research icebreaker Amundsen, checking on ice in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska and Western Canada. The ship was well inside a region the satellites said should be choked with thick, multiyear-old ice. "That's pretty much a no-go zone for an icebreaker of the Amundsen's size," says Barber. But the ship kept going, at a brisk 13 knots -- its top speed in open water is 13.7 knots -- and even when it finally reached thick ice, he says, "we could still penetrate it easily."" "In short, as Barber and his colleagues explain in a recent paper in Geophysical Review Letters, the analysis of what the satellites were seeing was wrong. Some of what satellites identified as thick, melt-resistant multiyear ice turned out to be, in Barber's words, "full of holes, like Swiss cheese. We haven't seen this sort of thing before."" Link ” You know, there's been agreement in some psychiatric circles that both Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama suffer from some pathology.  Sociopathy and Narcissism are most frequently mentioned.   Had John Kerry been elected in 2004, he'd have fit right in.  Al Gore, however, who came so close in 2000, is just plain nuts.  Insane.  I mean that. Thank you George W. Bush, for the respite. Chrissie