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'Gaia' Scientist Admits Mispredicting Rate of Climate Change
DesScorp writes "James Lovelock, the scientist that came up with the 'Gaia Theory' and a prominent herald of climate change, once predicted utter disaster for the planet from climate change, writing '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.' Now Lovelock is walking back his rhetoric, admitting that he and other prominent global warming advocates were being alarmists. In a new interview with MSNBC he says: '"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. 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.' Lovelock still believes the climate is changing, but at a much, much slower pace."
Oh sorry I had no idea you were completely insane.
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Hmmm. I agree with your points 1, 5, and 6. I think the others could work out fine though.
Animals getting whacked by turbines doesn't concern me. The same people who worry about it are the same people who love evolution, so they should also believe that new generations of critters should develop an instinct to avoid the them, right?
I've not heard much about solar having ecological side effects. They have fumes if you light them on fire, but that's about it. In every other respect they seem to beat the competition. If you take mining for coal into account, then they're about even in terms of land required for energy output.
And geothermal.... I want to stick fracking for natural gas in there too. That seems like a very bad idea.