Quantum Windbag
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I await the usual suspects to come in and post all the doomsday scenarios.
World News - 'Gaia' scientist James Lovelock: I was 'alarmist' about climate change
It will also reflect his new opinion that global warming has not occurred as he had expected.The problem is we dont 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 hasnt happened, Lovelock said.
The climate is doing its usual tricks. Theres 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. Twelve years is a reasonable time it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising -- carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that, he added.
He pointed to Gores An Inconvenient Truth and Tim Flannerys The Weather Makers as other examples of alarmist forecasts of the future.
In 2007, Time magazine named Lovelock as one of 13 leaders and visionaries in an article on Heroes of the Environment, which also included Gore, Mikhail Gorbachev and Robert Redford.
World News - 'Gaia' scientist James Lovelock: I was 'alarmist' about climate change