TEN YEARS AGO TODAY AL GORE PREDICTED THE NORTH POLE WOULD BE COMPLETELY ICE FREE IN FIVE YEARS On December 13 & 14, 2009, professor, prophet, and soothsayer Al Gore predicted the North Polar Ice Cap could be completely ice free within the next five to seven years Gore made his prediction at COP15 Copenhagen which ran from Dec 7 Dec 18, 2009, where he repeatedly referenced state-of-the-art computer modeling to suggest that the north polar ice cap may lose all of its ice by 2014.