Greenpeace Leader Admits Arctic Ice Exaggeration

Gerd Leipold, the outgoing leader of Greenpeace, admitted that his organization's recent claim that the Arctic Ice will disappear by 2030 was "a mistake." Greenpeace said in a July 15 press release that there will be an ice-free Arctic by 2030 because of global warming. BBC reporter Stephen Sackur on the "Hardtalk" program pressed Leipold until he admitted the claim was wrong.

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• Greenpeace
• Gerd Leipold
• Arctic ice
• Not Evil Just Wrong
• Phelim McAleer
• Ann McElhinney
• global warming
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• Al Gore
• environmental alarmism
• global warming hysteria

[guydecervens]

More Green Lies. The world is waking up to this Global Warming Scam.

[Melanatedone]

Can anyone say "Carbon tax".

[1000frolly]

@Ultra68

They are already switching to sea acidification...........watch this space........

[1000frolly]

These green liars should be locked up

The Greenland ice sheet has been there for a million years, through about 15 inter-glacial warm periods like the current Holocene.It has been subjected to much warmer periods than the present and survived; for example, 120,000 years ago, 320,000 years ago, 410,000 years ago ect. All these periods were warmer than now, and each lasted for thousands of years.

To melt Greenland, it would have to be 10c warmer than now, and even then it would take 10,000 years

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[TruthWithinRange]

If you scream somthing loud enough and long enough, the people will believe it.

Adolf Hitler.

[Ultra68]

Fear brings attention to the issue. Scare people and government enough, brings money. Now that the ice caps are expanding and some cooler temps in 2011, they will change their story. Can't get funding when there is nothing to worry bout? Fear fear itself. Lol

[magprob]

"It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true."

[SithSereyPheap1]

LAND GRABBING CAMBODIA !! 

[prschuster]

@goingfor11 Four million years ago there were no humans - only Australopithecines. There were no large cities near the coasts populated by millions of people. It was the Pliocene Epoch - not the" Paleocene Era". Of course the global warming wasn't anthropocentric because there were no humans then. None of this is even relevant to the discussion anyway.

[prschuster]

Gerd Leipold said that the arctic ice sheet is retreating. Amending his predictions doesn't make him a liar.

[checkyoursources]

Read:

The 13 warmest years have all occurred in the 15 years since 1997. The extent of Arctic sea ice in 2011 was the second lowest on record, and its volume was the lowest.

Satellites have found that Antarctica is gaining sea ice but losing land ice at an accelerating rate which has implications for sea level rise.

Severe consequences for at least 60 million people dependent on ice melt for water supply (Barnett 2005, Immerzeel 2010)