The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) is winding down in Copenhagen, but that doesn’t mean things are calming down. Former Vice President Al Gore caused a bit of a ruckus when he misquoted a scientist. Gore told the Copenhagen crowd that Dr. Wieslaw Maslowski of the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School claimed that in five to seven years, the polar ice cap would have no summer ice. The only problem was that Maslowski told the Times of London that he never said such a thing. He said that he would “never try to estimate [the] likelihood at anything as exact … Continue reading →