The earth is going to burn up, all the people are going to die, except for a few breeding pairs in the arctic.
Oh wait - Nevermind.
Posted on 04/23/2012 10:48:49 AM PDT by Olog-hai
James Lovelock, the maverick scientist who became a guru to the environmental movement with his “Gaia” theory of the Earth as a single organism, has admitted to being “alarmist” about climate change and says other environmental commentators, such as Al Gore, were too.
Lovelock, 92, is writing a new book in which he will say climate change is still happening, but not as quickly as he once feared.
He previously painted some of the direst visions of the effects of climate change. In 2006, in an article in the U.K.’s Independent newspaper, he wrote that “before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.”
However, the professor admitted in a telephone interview with msnbc.com that he now thinks he had been “extrapolating too far." …
The new book will discuss how humanity can change the way it acts in order to help regulate the Earth’s natural systems, performing a role similar to the harmonious one played by plants when they absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen.
It will also reflect his new opinion that global warming has not occurred as he had expected.
“The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books—mine included—because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t happened,” Lovelock said.
“The climate is doing its usual tricks. There’s nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now,” he said. … “The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. …”
He pointed to Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” and Tim Flannery’s “The Weather Makers” as other examples of “alarmist” forecasts of the future. …
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No kidding...*eyes rolling*
>> his “Gaia” theory of the Earth as a single organism
As theories go, that one sounds, like, so *gai-a”.
More CO2 and warmer weather means more plants, which would reduce the amount of CO2.
Warmer weather means more evaporation. This causes more clouds which reflects sunlight and reduces global warming.
In comparison to water vapor, CO2 is a small contributer to global warming.
All this GW hysteria is based off a few bad models.
The problem is that your coming to conclusions when you don't know what the climate is doing. You're irresponsible and should be held accountable criminally for leading governments into wasting billions of dollars for nothing.
As for the onerous government regulations now in place and the trillions of dollars in needless expenditures heaped on struggling economies worldwide ... sorry. It was all a big mistake.
I predict a multi-pronged attack by the Commies, um, I mean, by the supporters of climate ‘science’ alarmism:
- he was quoted out of context by the lying corporate media
- his email must have been hacked
- the oil companies got to him
- he’s old and senile, don’t pay any attention to him
- 97% of ‘Peer-reviewed Climate Scientists’ (tm) say that he is dead wrong
Someone needs to call the fools at ABC News about this... they're in the tank with the nuts who want our homes to burn down...
A few horribly bad models, a bunch of falsified data and a huge political agenda to redistribute enormous amounts of wealth from industrial nations to the turd world.
The earth is going to burn up, all the people are going to die, except for a few breeding pairs in the arctic.
Oh wait - Nevermind.
The old “two steps forward, one step back” routine.
Fark ‘em all!
The climate is CHANGING?! WHAHUT?! IS IT TOO LATE TO PANIC?!!!
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The first 12 years of this century have seen more horsecrap than the first 12 years of the preceding one,,,,and they had the horses helping out.
As if it isn’t an historical fact that the climate has always “changed” to one degree or the other....beginning long before “man” came on the scene, too. DUH!
Look for these hysterical fools, and the political opportunists who use them, to double down on the “sustainability” meme now in order to justify the higher taxes they want to impose on the dumb clucks who continue to fall for the BS.
Lovelock, like the leopard, has in no way changed his “spots”. He’s STILL a dufus.
2 degrees since 1890... yeah, we should panic... yawn.
Warmer weather means more evaporation. This causes more clouds which reflects sunlight and reduces global warming.
In comparison to water vapor, CO2 is a small contributor to global warming.
All this GW hysteria is based off a few bad models.
Nuff said.
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