Posted on 02/18/2014 8:43:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The climate science maverick believes catastrophe is inevitable, carbon offsetting is a joke and ethical living a scam. So what would he do?
In 1965 executives at Shell wanted to know what the world would look like in the year 2000. They consulted a range of experts, who speculated about fusion-powered hovercrafts and "all sorts of fanciful technological stuff". When the oil company asked the scientist James Lovelock, he predicted that the main problem in 2000 would be the environment. "It will be worsening then to such an extent that it will seriously affect their business," he said.
"And of course," Lovelock says, with a smile 43 years later, "that's almost exactly what's happened."
Lovelock has been dispensing predictions from his one-man laboratory in an old mill in Cornwall since the mid-1960s, the consistent accuracy of which have earned him a reputation as one of Britain's most respected - if maverick - independent scientists. Working alone since the age of 40, he invented a device that detected CFCs, which helped detect the growing hole in the ozone layer, and introduced the Gaia hypothesis, a revolutionary theory that the Earth is a self-regulating super-organism. Initially ridiculed by many scientists as new age nonsense, today that theory forms the basis of almost all climate science....
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20 years? It happened in less than 2. About on par for a JL prediction.
Well he has lived to a ripe old age spinning yarns.
I heard this twenty years ago.
It’s past its expiration date and a proven fraud...
It is plenty cold on Mars and there is a one way trip coming up, I nominate James Love-less to go on that trip
There will always be people who think they’re smarter than everybody else. Lovelock is no different. Obviously, a man with a lot of intelligence who thinks he has everything figured out. A lot of other very smart people were predicting we’d all be dead by now. In fact, some, Paul Ehrlich, were saying a lot of the same things as Lovelock in a different way. We’re all still here, and the world won’t end in twenty years.
Better yet, have a look at temp changes in the solar system.
He moved to Montecito, CA (Santa Barbara) several years ago. We could sure use some of that snow -- especially in the form of rain. He's a complete idiot but our drought is real.
ahahahah THANK YOU!!!
if libs actually believe this, then why are they spending their time making laws and breaking laws making everyone else’s lives miserable?
why not just keep spending then? who cares about budgets. let’s just make everyone billionaires.
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Obama will save us by, with a stroke of a pen, delay the Laws of Thermodynamics.
That it is, and should be expected occasionally in CA.
In spite of that, water is grossly mismanaged by the State and Federal "authorities", that's where the problem lies.
All life on earth ceased in 1982 when Reagan provoked the Soviets into an all out nuclear war. Everything was destroyed in a matter of days. The earth now is just a molten lifeless rock surrounded by a 20 mile thick radioactive ash cloud. Has everyone forgotten about the end?
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