Al Gore Warns Polar Ice May Be Gone in Five Years

Complete video at: 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. ’s complete coverage of the COP15 Climate Change Conference: ----- Al Gore and Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre present their global report on melting ice at the COP15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Also with Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs Per Stig Møller and Greenland Premier Kuupik Kleist and Dorthe Dahl-Jensen. Dr. Bob Carell presents the summary of the report. - COP15 Albert Arnold “Al“ Gore, Jr. was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Before that, Vice President Gore served in the U. S. House of Representatives (1977-85) and the U. S. Senate (1985-93), representing Tennessee. A prominent environmental activist, he shares the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.“ Gore was the Democratic nominee for president in the 2000 election in which he won the popular vote by a plurality. A legal controversy over the Florida election recount, ultimately settled in favor of George W. Bush by the Supreme Court, made the election one of the most controversial in American history. Today, Gore is chairman of the American television channel Current TV, chairman of Generation Investment Management, a director on the board of Apple Inc., an unofficial adviser to Google’s senior management, and chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection. He recently joined venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, to head that firm’s climate change solutions group.