Climate change is occurring far more rapidly than even the worst predictions of the UN’s Nobel Prize-winning scientific panel on climate change, Al Gore warned yesterday.

Recent evidence shows “the climate crisis is significantly worse and unfolding more rapidly than those on the pessimistic side of the IPCC projections had warned us,” said Gore.

There are now forecasts that the North Pole ice caps may disappear entirely during summer months within five years, he the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Global warming is meant to be a key theme at this year’s meeting of the world’s business and political elite in Davos. I suppose that means they can go outside and watch the snow melting in front of their eyes.. .