Newspaper: Al Gore's credibility continues to melt

A terrific editorial in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review about growing evidence the the global warming hysteria propagated by Al Gore is a bunch of baloney.

Remember how mankind's abuse of fossil fuels was going to cause the North Pole's ice cap to melt completely in 2008?

Remember how the beloved polar bear was in danger of soon becoming extinct because there was too little sea ice from which bears could hunt their favorite dinners of ringed seal pups?

It turns out that both of these global warming scare stories were as full of it as Al Gore's Oscar-winning docu-comedy "An Inconvenient Truth."

It's true that North Pole sea ice had been tracking lower in recent years and throughout much of 2008. But fresh data from the University of Illinois Arctic Climate Research Center show that Arctic sea ice levels -- which have a natural, cyclical habit of expanding, shrinking and thickening -- have rebounded rapidly this winter.

In fact, polar ice is now essentially equal to levels measured in January 1979, when satellites were first used to record data.

Too bad the liberal media continues to promote climate change fantasies.

Read the full editorial, "Climate change: Melting credibility," at the newspaper's Web site.