Top Scientist Says We’re Screwed
Mon, Oct 29, 2007
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It’s too late to prevent disasters caused by climate change, according to one of the world’s top environmental minds.
Professor James Lovelock, inventor of the Gaia theory which suggests the planet acts something like a single organism, said in a recent speech that reducing greenhouse gases and moving to sustainable development will not prevent the most disastrous of global warming’s effects.
In fact, Lovelock believes that a rapid reduction in greenhouse gases would actually increase the speed of global warming. He states that global warming is currently partially offset by global dimming, a cooling of 2-3 ?C caused by atmospheric industrial pollution.
Lovelock is skeptical of the IPCC’s most recent report, which he calls cautious. He believes it gives the false impression that global warming is reversible with immediate action. Lovelock’s own view is somewhat apocalyptic. He suggests that 6 to 8 billion people will face crises over food and water supplies while battling an intolerable climate.
Lovelock does have some suggestions on how to improve the situation. He suggests cutting greenhouse gas emissions anyway, as they may slow the pace of global warming. He also advocates saving natural forests. He still believes, however, that humans will have to adapt to the inevitable changes global warming will bring.
Source: Telegraph and Guardian
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We are all fucked! « Moveable Feast Says:
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Dissecting group psychological and socio-moral mechanisms implicit to ecologically unwise behaviour « Mulig Says:
February 22nd, 2008 at 4:14 pm[...] Echoing in your mind is perhaps a general realization that the actual fact of saving the world for future generations to enjoy living in, is going to take the co-operation of more than six-and-a-half billion people, and that the likelihood of that is rather slim. So go ahead. Fuck the world, I don’t care. And don’t even think you can try and save it, ’cause noone else will, and you’ll only end up feeling terribly sorry that you ever sat down, read up on James Lovelock, and took to think to yourself: “We’re screwed.” [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
i just dont know anymore……i just dont know.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Sir James Lovelock’s interview in the Guardian on Saturday — March 1, 3008 — and it is a must-read:
He says he writing a new book now, too. To fill us in on what comes next. I don’t know if I have told anyone here this, but last month I sent some images of my polar cities concept to Dr Lovelock by email, and he wrote back the next day, saying: “Thanks for showing me those images. It may very happen and soon.”
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I know Dr Lovelock has not been knighted yet by the Queen and maybe never will be, so he is not actually a “Sir” as I kiddingly wrote above, but he certainly should be honored that way. Sir James Lovelock. Yes. Has a good ring to it.
His interview in Saturday’s Guardian will knock your socks off. NSFW. But a very important interview. Read it and weep. (And then get back to work again, doing what you can to try to mitigate the impacts of climate change on this unsuspecting Earth that has been so kind to us for so many years as to give us a home for many many generations now. Soldier on, all who know that global warming is for real!)
— Posted by Danny Bloom
June 24th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Until 20 yeras ago “environmental scientists” were weathermen and they were usually wrong. Now we have created an industry of scientists paid to prove “we’re screwed” (the more screwed the better). The new ice age didn’t happen and global warming isn’t man made (and may not be such a bad thing anyway depending where you live).
Al Gore makes money selling energy credits and (very wealthy) John Edwards makes money giving speaches about poverty. Do you see a pattern here?
We are being lined up to have our pockets picked “for our own good”.
Don’t buy in to the hysteria.