The guru of gaia and, until now, a global warming alarmist and carbophope that has made Al Gore sound like a skeptic, James Lovelock, is backing off of his warmmongering ways.
Before I recount his most recent view, as being reported at MSNBC, here’s what he said in an article he wrote just 6 years ago:
We have given Gaia a fever and soon her condition will worsen to a state like a coma. She has been there before and recovered, but it took more than 100,000 years. We are responsible and will suffer the consequences: as the century progresses, the temperature will rise 8 degrees centigrade in temperate regions and 5 degrees in the tropics.
Much of the tropical land mass will become scrub and desert, and will no longer serve for regulation; this adds to the 40 per cent of the Earth’s surface we have depleted to feed ourselves….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.
That was 2006 and this is today:
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.
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.
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. (Where have you seen this before? See item 2 here).
The fact that a kook like this is acknowledging what those “deniers” have been saying for years is definitely giving me pause. If Al Gore changes his views I’m switching sides.
