Posted on 10/22/2007 9:34:04 PM PDT by Lorianne
Yes. It appears the GW hysterics might be best described as 21st century eugenicists.
Prof. Lovelock is actually a staunch supporter of nuclear energy, he believes it is the only solution to global warming.
IMHO, regardless of whether global warming is true or not, getting off of mid-east oil would be great.
Wow! Just think how less crowded the beaches will be.
And a hard rain’s gonna fall..
I’ll be 93 in 2040.. If I live that long.
Hopefully, we can use all the films, video, and news articles to prosecute Gore and the other global warming advocates that are still alive..
Classic case of a man nearing the end of his own life and thinking the world can't or won't go on with out him. I'll bet he's an atheist too. DeGaulle said the graveyards are full of indispensible men.
So, when computer models serve their purpose, the left invokes them and when they frustrate their ends they dismiss them, both of which Lovelock did himself in this article. Thus we got the modern equivalent of stone tablets rendering us our commandments as needed. When Lovelock flies too close to the sun with his creation of Gaia thus foreclosing the ability of liberals to play God, he is rebuked and admonished and brought back into the fold where he reassures all liberals that they are the nerves of the Eco system. Thus they have not only the right but the duty and responsibility to set things right and regulate the whole world.
One could go on and pluck out more flamboyant trespasses on Judeo- Christian epistemology, but the point is made
In 90 years, they will look back and mock this fool, like we mock the NY Times, who once said (around 1920 I believe), that space travel was impossible. Like we mock Neville Chamberlain for his peace in our times nonsense, and like we mock the people who wanted to close the U.S. patent office around 1890, because they concluded that ‘everything that could be invented, had been invented’. The future is always better than the naysayers predict. We’ll be OK.
Well done. However, you left out an important reference to Thomas Malthus.:-)
Well, if its in the Rolling Stone is has to be true.
As long as it is still the 1960s and you are still high from Woodstock.
These climate hystericals are probably going to start quoting Nostradomus next to ‘prove’ that its all going to end soon.
Yep. I care about his opinion...
From Wilkipedia:
* Lovelock, James [1979] (2000). Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-286218-9.
* Lovelock, James; Michael Allaby (1983). Great Extinction. Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-18011-X.
* Lovelock, James; Michael Allaby (1984). The Greening of Mars. Warner Books. ISBN 0-446-32967-3.
* Lovelock, James [1988] (1995). Ages of Gaia. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-393-31239-9.
* Lovelock, James [Gaia Books 1991] (2001). Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine. Oxford University Press US. ISBN 0-19-521674-1.
* Lovelock, James (1991). Scientists on Gaia. Cambridge, Mass., USA: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-19310-8.
* Lovelock, James (2005). Gaia: Medicine for an Ailing Planet. Gaia Books. ISBN 1-85675-231-3.
* Lovelock, James (2000). Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860429-7. (Lovelock’s autobiography)
* Lovelock, James (2006). The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back - and How We Can Still Save Humanity. Santa Barbara (California): Allen Lane. ISBN 0-7139-9914-4.
Another passage from the article you posted:
“In the 1970s, Lovelock upended all this with a simple question: Why is the Earth different from Mars and Venus, where the atmosphere is toxic to life? In a flash of insight, Lovelock understood that our atmosphere was created not by random geological events but by the cumulative effusion of everything that has ever breathed, grown and decayed. Our air “is not merely a biological product,” Lovelock wrote, “but more probably a biological construction: not living, but like a cat’s fur, a bird’s feathers or the paper of a wasp’s nest, an extension of a living system designed to maintain a chosen environment.” According to Gaia theory, life is not just a passenger on Earth but an active participant, helping to create the very conditions that sustain it. It’s a beautiful idea —life begets life. It was also right in tune with the post-flower-child mood of the Seventies. Lovelock was quickly adopted as a spiritual guru, the man who killed God and put the planet at the center of New Age religious experience.”
An accurate summation of why we should ignore the Global Warming Crowd. It is religion, not science.
Well, sounds like a real adventure. I love a challenge!
What really irritates me, is that these hystericals would call you a Global Warming DENIER i.e. juxtaposing it to a DENIER of the Holocaust.
Predicting things that have already happened? Big whoop. They already have enough to feed the world. Say, that isn't so bad after all!
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What an old fool and idiot!
You have to love his invention of the microwave oven, but I'd like to take a look under the hood of that electron capture detector to see if he's been cooking the books all these years. And do you suppose that he got it on with Rachel Carson?
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