In response to the Dec. 4 commentary about climate change by Bob Stern, I think it’s appropriate to aska question regarding whatthe following three predictions have in common: (1) former Vice President Al Gore’s beliefthat the summer ice at the North Pole would disappear by the year 2013, (2) Great Britain’s Prince Charles’ opinion that the Earth would experience acatastrophic event by 2017, and (3)the dire warning by then French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius that theEarth…