In light of the latest junk science from the UN's IPCC touting global warming , err
"climate change", I thought it fitting to link to
this article about
James Lovelock.
Lovelock
is was a leading light in the environmentalist movement.
From the article.
Green guru and geophysicist James
Lovelock, considered one of the pioneering scientists of the 20th century, has
officially turned his back on man-made global warming claims and the green
movement’s focus on renewable energy. Lovelock conceived the Gaia theory back
in the 1970s, describing the Earth’s biosphere as “an active, adaptive control
system able to maintain the earth in homeostasis.”...
The newly skeptical Lovelock
responded: ”Well, that’s my privilege. You see, I’m an independent
scientist. I’m not funded by some government department or commercial body or
anything like that. If I make a mistake, then I can go public with it. And you
have to, because it is only by making mistakes that you can move ahead.”
Lovelock dismissed the entire basis
for global warming concerns in his BBC television interview. “Take this climate
matter everybody is thinking about. They all talk, they pass laws, they do
things, as if they knew what was happening. I don’t think anybody really knows
what’s happening. They just guess. And a whole group of them meet together and
encourage each other’s guesses,” Lovelock explained.
Please, do yourself a favor and read the whole thing.
Just to gauge how big of a change that is, here are some earlier quotes.
Writing in the British newspaper The Independent
in January 2006, Lovelock argued that, as a result of global warming,
"billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that
survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable" by
the end of the 21st century.[27] He has been quoted in The Guardian
that 80% of humans will perish by 2100 AD, and this climate change will
last 100,000 years. According to James Lovelock, by 2040, the world
population of more than six billion will have been culled by floods,
drought and famine. Indeed "[t]he people of Southern Europe, as well as
South-East Asia, will be fighting their way into countries such as
Canada, Australia and Britain".[28]
"By 2040, parts of the Sahara desert will have moved into middle
Europe. We are talking about Paris – as far north as Berlin. In Britain
we will escape because of our oceanic position."[28]
"If you take the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predictions, then by 2040 every summer in Europe will be as hot as it was in 2003
– between 110F and 120F. It is not the death of people that is the main
problem, it is the fact that the plants can't grow – there will be
almost no food grown in Europe."[28]
"We are about to take an evolutionary step and my hope is that the species will emerge stronger. It would be hubris to think humans as they now are God's chosen race."
