By Jeannine Putrelo

There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday. At the Copenhagen climate change summit Mr Gore states that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years. In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.” Embarrassing error cast another shadow over the conference over the hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, appeared to suggest that scientists had manipulated data to strengthen their argument that human activities were causing global warming.

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