Are we to believe a demented old fool who can't even figure out when he needs to change his grampers?
Posted on 10/22/2007 9:34:04 PM PDT by Lorianne
One of the most eminent scientists of our time says that global warming is irreversible — and that more than 6 billion people will perish by the end of the century ___ At the age of eighty-eight, after four children and a long and respected career as one of the twentieth century's most influential scientists, James Lovelock has come to an unsettling conclusion: The human race is doomed. "I wish I could be more hopeful," he tells me one sunny morning as we walk through a park in Oslo, where he is giving a talk at a university. Lovelock is a small man, unfailingly polite, with white hair and round, owlish glasses. His step is jaunty, his mind lively, his manner anything but gloomy. In fact, the coming of the Four Horsemen -- war, famine, pestilence and death -- seems to perk him up. "It will be a dark time," Lovelock admits. "But for those who survive, I suspect it will be rather exciting."
In Lovelock's view, the scale of the catastrophe that awaits us will soon become obvious. By 2020, droughts and other extreme weather will be commonplace. By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe, and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle. Phoenix will become uninhabitable, as will parts of Beijing (desert), Miami (rising seas) and London (floods). Food shortages will drive millions of people north, raising political tensions. "The Chinese have nowhere to go but up into Siberia," Lovelock says. "How will the Russians feel about that? I fear that war between Russia and China is probably inevitable." With hardship and mass migrations will come epidemics, which are likely to kill millions. By 2100, Lovelock believes, the Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far latitudes -- Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.
Cool. We’re doomed anyway so let’s PAR-TAY !!!
It is a fact that old brains don't function like young brains. Anything an old "expert" says should be taken with a grain of salt.
***...and that more than 6 billion people will perish by the end of the century... ***
Now THAT I believe. Of all the people living right now, at least 6 billion of them will die in the next 93 years.
What a moronic fool.
Temps haven`t increased since `96
http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=251682888980468
Are we to believe a demented old fool who can't even figure out when he needs to change his grampers?
Alzheimer’s?
LOL. Good point.
Even Lovelock's friends cringe when he talks like this. "I fear he's overdrawing our despair budget," says Chris Rapley, head of the Science Museum in London, who has worked hard to raise international awareness of global warming. And Rapley's into "population management."
I like the part about a China-Russia war.
IOW: The problem will fix itself. What isn't said is that the world's population stands now at 6,626,381,678 I can easily see at least 6 billion of these folks dead in 92 years whether or not there is global warming.
Yeah,yeah,yeah, we’re always doomed. This geezer is just mad that he’ll be dead before his expected doomsday arrives. In the 50’s and 60’s a staple of magazine cartoons was some loon standing on a city sidwewalk wearing a sandwich sign reading “The End Is Near!”. Now these clowns are on every “news” show.
I had the flu this weekend and I was sure we were all going to die. Now I feel a little better, so I guess mankind is safe for now.
Interesting you say that. Michael Crichton wrote an article noting the similarities of the GW hysteria to the eugenics "truth.
You can find it here.
What a great site—thanks!
Old Geezer article has to be from Onion...you just can’t make this stuff up: “I fear he’s overdrawing our despair budget,” says C.Rapley, head of the Science Museum in London, who has worked hard to raise international awareness of global warming. And Rapley’s into “population management.”
Crichton also skillfully presented the comparison between eugenics and GW hysteria in “Climate of Fear.” It is an outstanding hypothesis, isn’t it?
Again? Yur Killin' Me Smalls!
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