Greenpeace leader Gerd Leipold has, for years, been running around the world telling us that the polar ice sheet is melting.  In fact, he claims it’s shrinking at a rate of 50 cubic meters per second, and will be completely dissolved by 2030.

Better make that “used to claim,” because during an interview on the BBC news show “Hardtalk” he was forced to admit that it was all made up.  It was, he said, a way of “emotionalizing issues” that concern Greenpeace.  The line of questioning stemmed from a July 15th press release, in which the organization made its annual claim regarding the vanishing polar ice cap.  In the piece, Leipold said that by 2030, we would be looking at an “ice free” North Pole.

What does he say now? Well, after spending a few minutes trying to dodge the question, he replied, “I don’t think it will be melting by 2030. … That may have been a mistake.”

Strange.  It seems that, since they had all that scientific data to back up their claims, such a “mistake” would have been impossible. 

Unless of course, the science was bogus. 

Greenpeace wouldn’t do that, would they?

- Robert Laurie