Lovelock: Paris A Desert, China 'Uninhabitable' By 2040

Business and Media Institute ^ | March 22, 2008 | Jeff Poor

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

It’s not a script for the next science-fiction thriller, but renowned British scientist James Lovelock is giving human civilization less than 32 years before all hell breaks loose because of the effects of global warming.

Lovelock said the impact of climate change is irreversible regardless of what mankind does.

“By 2040, the world population of more than six billion will have been culled by floods, drought and famine,”

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

In 32 years I will be only 97, and I hope that between now and then, if I ever get as senile as this old fool and begin suffering from same sort of dementia, that someone will take me out back and put me out of my misery

For the rest of you who are younger, I'd counsel you to begin getting your house in order.

In fact, we might as well simply begin adhering to what Dr. Timothy Leary used to suggest. "Turn on, tune in, and drop out."

Hey, its all over but the shouting!!

Moreover, just when I was seriously thinking about giving up smoking, endulging in foods which contain trans fats, imbibing in an occasional adult beverage and quit chasing nubile young lasses so that I might live to be 100.

Why bother?

“Gaia” (after allowing us to live on its 4.6 bn year old planet for some 200,000 years) is about to exact its revenge on us mere mortals for somehow, having “Pissed her off,”

And we all know that “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”

Seriously, what is really frightening is that Eco-Moonbats such as this are actually listened to and their opinions are sought and accepted.

"According to the article, Lovelock has the ear of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and even the Queen of England. The 88-year-old scientist also supports the work of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). “Firms such as Shell have consulted him about his theories. Prince Charles has invited him to lecture at his summer school this year,” said the article.

Loveock is also the one who coined and developed the theory of "Gaia,"

"First formulated by Lovelock during the 1960s as a result of work for NASA concerned with detecting life on Mars, the Gaia hypothesis proposes that living and non-living parts of the earth form a complex interacting system that can be thought of as a single organism. Named after the Greek goddess Gaia, the hypothesis postulates that the biosphere has a regulatory effect on the Earth's environment that acts to sustain life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis

[BufordP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990020/posts

[TheBattman]

Some folks just cannot admit they are wrong... When you continue to make statements out of ignorance, you look ignorant. When you continue to make statements despite the evidence clearly proving you are wrong, you look like a raving idiot.

Those “scientists” who continue to put stock in “global warming” should be view as suspect, as should all future research that comes from their lab or pen.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

Sorry tried different searches and nothing came up under this title.

[Boundless]

> Lovelock said the impact of climate change
> is irreversible regardless of what mankind does.

The Cult of Global Hot Air won’t hear that part,
because it implies we might as well stop wasting
effort on doing anything about it, and THAT is
inconsistent with their underlying agenda.

[BufordP]

It’s best to do a title search on one main word from the title. I did a “title” search for “paris” to find the other thread.

[Red_Devil 232]

In 32 years I doubt I will be around either! I hate to tell my wife this. She is younger than me. It will be hard convincing her that I need to stock up on beer NOW!

[RightWhale]

Yes, it is a dup but your comments are well done.

[OpusatFR]

The less people listen to them and the more everyone ignores them, the more dire the prognosis.

I expect in a few months they will be screeching.

Yes, they are moonbats.

[farmer18th]

..if I ever get as senile as this old fool and begin suffering from same sort of dementia..

Too late.

[expatpat]

Lovelock said the impact of climate change is irreversible regardless of what mankind does.

So much for carbon credits and caps.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Typical global warming histrionics.

[RichInOC]

Like China’s habitable now?

[robomatik]

32 years, 87 days, 4 hours, and 27 minutes according to my calculations. :)

[Shadow44]

People have been feeding the ecological doomsday myth ever since the time of Malthus. The sad part is that society as a whole hasn’t caught onto to the scam after all these years. Who knows, maybe it’s Tenth bitten, Eleventh shy.

[Rudder]

Enough is enough. This guy said the same thing yesterday. I read it right here.

[brytlea]

I suppose you could look at the Earth as an organism, however it doesn’t have sentience, and thus...who cares?

[Hunton Peck]

“By 2040, the world population of more than six billion will have been culled by floods, drought and famine,”

That's what liberals want, isn't it? What're they beyotchin' about?

[RightWhale]

it doesn’t have sentience

My grad committee assumed that anybody lacking a PhD also lacked sentience.

[hosepipe]

Is Lovelock an evil midget genius?..

[Hunton Peck]

Heck. I hate it when I reply to the wrong post. My #18 was supposed to go to the OP.

[Shady]

The biggest threat for climate change comes from Mahamood Ahmamurdererijad and his Atomic Bomb. You’re barking up the wrong tree, Pro-Fesser!!!!!

[Hunton Peck]

Besides, Paris a desert? China uninhabitable? I’m having a hard time seeing a downside to this.

[DennisR]

Every time one of these “scientists” makes a prediction, they should have to put up $100,000 that they would lose if their prediction does not come true. I think the hot air they put out would be quickly diminished if they had to do this!

[OeOeO]

I would panic,except I died in the Great Global Famine of the 70s

[brytlea]

I’m sure they did. Sadly, it says more about them than it does about the rest of us... :)

susie

[mtbopfuyn]

He’s way off. No lie, just yesterday in the grocery store check out line, I saw some rag with headlines stating the end of the world will be May 11th this year.

[utherdoul]

and I was never born because Ronald Reagan started World War III

[G.Love]

Don’t forget the ice age that Time magazine announced we were having in the 70’s.

[mtbopfuyn]

Moreover, just when I was seriously thinking about giving up smoking, endulging in foods which contain trans fats, imbibing in an occasional adult beverage and quit chasing nubile young lasses so that I might live to be 100. Why bother?

Ahh, I have a new favorite song that might just fit that - #4 Green Grow the Rushes at - http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=106366

There’s naught but care on every hand In ever hour that passes, O What signifies the life of man If it were not for the lassies, O

Chorus

Green grow the rushes, O Green grow the rushes, O The sweetest hours that e’er I spent Are spent among the lassies, O

The worldly race may riches chase And riches still may fly them, O And though at last they catch them fast Their hearts can ne’er enjoy them, O

Chorus

Give me a cannie hour at e’en My arms around me dearie, O The wisest man the world e’er saw He dearly loved the lassies, O

Chorus

Old nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O Her apprentice hand she tried on man And then she made the lassies, O

Chorus

Green grow the rushes Green grow the rushes

[PugetSoundSoldier]

Like China’s habitable now?

Quite! It's a beautiful, sunny, clear morning today in Shanghai, probably going to be mid 60s this afternoon. Perfect day for a stroll in a park...

[Chode]

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

grad committee assumed that anybody lacking a PhD also lacked sentience

Some are under the impression that a BS stands for Bachelor of Science, but in actuality, is means Bull Sh*t.

And MS means "More of the Same."

And a PHD, stands for "Piled Higher and Deeper."

[devere]

Put him back on his meds

[SubMareener]

Desert will not be China's problem.

When predicting the future of this century, one would be advised to consider Gordon-Micael Scallion's visons: When satellites capture images of our beautiful blue and green planet during the next millennium, will we recognize the shapes they show us? It can be difficult to comprehend all at once the incredible Earth changes which Gordon-Michael Scallion has predicted. What will our planet actually look like after these changes are complete? Based on over 25 years of visions he has received on the subject, this award winning wall map is the definitive illustration of GMS’ Earth change predictions. Giant-sized for easy viewing, this map covers changes for all continents, as well as new islands that will be created, rising from the oceans’ floors. As GMS explains in the map’s text, “I feel that sharing this information will identify areas that should be watched… and supply benchmarks that may be used to warn of impending changes as these scenarios unfold.”

[steelyourfaith]

 

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• Beam me to Planet Gore !
• Reasoned Thinking Comes From Cooler Heads
• WeatherQuestions.Com (Dr. Roy Spencer, Official Climatologist, EIB Network)
• Dr. Spencer's book, Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor
  
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[the invisib1e hand]

get some fresh air.

while you still can.

[mcshot]

Downside is they prolly will be livin on gubmint assistance in a shanty town near the former Mexican border.

[Quix]

LOL.

Welll there’s a bunch of other stuff to ponder as well . . .

Beginning with post # 354

here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1958871/posts?page=365#354

[muir_redwoods]

"He told The Daily Mail he believes “white Americans” will adapt easily to these Armageddon circumstances.

“White Americans are descended from those who had the guts to cross on rough old ships and find a new life,” Lovelock said. “They have the right spirit of can-do.”

I wonder how these comments are playing among the leftist friends of this old fool.

[BamaBlue]

Actually I prefer this one...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qh9ZZgDqzAg

Turn it up and have some fun...

[nomad]

His cousin,where`s James West when you need him!

[GOPJ]

Malthus, Club of Rome, Heaven’s Gate...

[Carry_Okie]

This is the idiot who dreamed up "The Gaia Hypothesis."

“Gaian perception connects us with the seamless nature of existence, and opens up a new approach to scientific research based on scientific institutions arising from scientists’ personal, deeply subjective ecological experience. When the young scientist in training has sat on a mountain top, and has completed her first major assignment to ‘think like a mountain’, that is, to dwell and deeply identify with a mountain, mechanistic thinking will never take root in her mind. When she eventually goes out to practise her science in the world, she will be fully aware that every interconnected aspect of it has its own intrinsic value, irrespective of its usefulness to the economic activities of human beings.” – STEPHAN HARDING

Gaia was supposedly a Minoan earth goddess, adopted by a clearly wealthy, and reputedly earth-worshiping and pacifist civilization on Crete. Unfortunately, the popular beliefs about Minoan civilization largely represent the neurotic whimsy of Sir Arthur Evans, the first major excavator at Knossos. Evans (a homosexual pedophile) was obsessed with proving that Minoan civilization had Aryan origins, and demonstrated a propensity to contort his observations in order to project upon them Druidic beliefs. Current evidence suggests that constantly warring Minoan city-states were overrun by Mycenaean Greeks, perhaps after a nearby volcanic eruption. Maybe they had been weakened and their numbers were reduced. They did sometimes eat their children. One thing that we do know: They are no longer with us.

[Cacique]

BS

[denydenydeny]

Firms such as Shell have consulted him

As in, "What are you having, regular or hi-test?"

[Thunder90]

"Manbearpig is coming to get you. I'm super serial!!!"

[Thumper1960]

I’ve met a few Ph.D’s who’d starve to death if they hadn’t a diner or restaurant close by.

[tbw2]

I’d hate to remind this guy - when the dinosaurs were running around, there is no evidence of ice at the poles. It is estimated at 10-15 degrees warmer 65 million years ago than it is today. The ice age cycle we currently have only started 40 million years ago. So by the historical thesis, we have a lot of warming up to do.

[tbw2]

The estimates that 90% will die off is just like the Elrich (is that the spelling?) Doomsayer from the 1990s. Yet there are twice as many people AND a higher standard of living.
If it got 10 degrees hotter:
Russians would stay just where they are AND make a killing exploiting Siberia, and can get rich selling homesteading rights to Europeans
Chinese move into Tibet as well as northern China, where it gets to 50 degrees below in the winter
Antarctica becomes modern day Iceland.
And we’d probably figure out really good air conditioning methods by 2040 too.