Lovelock,
on BBC TV, slams the global warming claims including those of of
the United Nations climate panel. 'They just guess. And a whole group
of them meet together and encourage each other’s guesses.'
Lovelock
was once one of the leading voices of climate alarm. See: 2006 Climate
Shocker: Lovelock Predicted Global Warming Doom: 'Billions of us will die; few
breeding pairs of people that survive will be in Arctic'Lovelock becomes UN IPCC's biggest critic: Green Guru Lovelock Slams UN IPCC & Greens: ‘Whenever UN puts its finger in it seems to become a mess’ — ‘The green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion’ -- James Lovelock: ''IPCC is too politicized & too internalized' -- On Green religion: 'I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use. The greens use guilt. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting CO2 in the air'
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Marc Morano - Climate DepotApril 3, 2014 12:43 PM with 312 comments
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.”
In an April 3, 2014 BBC TV
interview, Lovelock has come out swinging at his fellow environmentalists,
accusing the new UN IPCC
global warming report of plagiarizing his now retracted climate
claims from his 2006 book ‘The Revenge
of Gaia.’
“The last IPCC report is very
similar to the (now retracted) statements I made in my book about 8 years ago,
called The
Revenge of Gaia. It’s almost as if they’ve copied it,” Lovelock
told BBC
Newsnight television program on April 3.
BBC interviewer Jeremy Paxman
noted to Lovelock during the April 3 program: ”Sure. But you then, after
publishing these apocalyptic predictions, you then retracted them.”
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.
A UN Lead Author, Dr. Richard Tol,
joined Lovelock this week in slamming the UN and had his name removed from the
IPCC report. See: UN IPCC LEAD
AUTHOR Dr. Richard Tol rips IPCC: ‘The idea that climate change poses an
existential threat to humankind is laughable’
Other reactions to the UN report
echoed Tol. See: Pre-Determined
‘Science’: Round Up of New UN IPCC Report: Human Extinction? IPCC at ‘beck and
call’ of Govts – UN Officials Predicted Alarming Report Years Ago
Another prominent scientist also
dissented this week: Freeman Dyson
— the world-renowned mathematical physicist: ‘I have strong views about climate
because I think the majority is badly wrong’
Just last week, Lovelock compared
believe in man-made climate alarm to “‘religion.” See: Gaia inventor
James Lovelock: ‘Environmentalism has become a religion, and religions don’t
worry too much about facts’ – March 31, 2014
Back in 2006, Lovelock was a
committed man-made global warmnig activist, promoting scary climate scenarios.
See: Climate
Shocker: Lovelock Predicted Global Warming Doom: ‘Billions of us will die; few
breeding pairs of people that survive will be in Arctic where the climate
remains tolerable‘ & Gaia
scientist Lovelock: ‘I was WRONG and alarmist on climate: a scientist: ‘I swore
Earth should be frying by now’ – ’In 2006 Dr. Lovelock
predicted the Earth ‘would catch a morbid fever’ that would destroy six billion
people – ‘the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic
where the climate remains tolerable’
Lovelock has since reversed himself
and now serves a vocal critic of the man-made global warming movement. – Flashback
April 2012: ‘Gaia’ scientist James Lovelock reverses himself: I was ‘alarmist’
about climate change & so was Gore! ‘The problem is we don’t know what the
climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago’
Lovelock: ‘We
haven’t got the physics worked out yet…I think the public are right. That’s why
I’m soft on the sceptics. Science has got overblown’ & 2010: Green
Guru Lovelock Says Warmists ‘Scared Stiff’: ‘The great climate science centers
around the world are more than well aware how weak their science is’
Lovelock has been very critical of
the UN IPCC. In 2012, he slammed the UN climate panel as “a mess” and accused
it of being “too politicised and too internalized.” See: 2012: Green
Guru Lovelock Slams UN IPCC & Greens: ‘Whenever UN puts its finger in it
seems to become a mess’ — ‘The green religion is now taking over from the
Christian religion’ — James Lovelock: ”IPCC is too politicised &
too internalized’ — On Green religion: ‘I don’t think people have noticed that,
but it’s got all the sort of terms that religions use. The greens use guilt.
You can’t win people round by saying they are guilty for putting CO2 in the
air’
Lovelock also spared no criticism of
the Climategate scnadal. See: Lovelock on
Climategate: Scandal left him feeling ‘utterly disgusted’ —
‘Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the
holy ghost of science. I’m not religious, but I put it that way because I feel
so strongly. It’s the one thing you do not ever do. You’ve got to have
standards.’
Lovelock has questioned the entire
scientific basis for man-made climate change alarm. Climate Depot began
reporting on Lovelock’s conversion away from climate fears in 2010 as he began
reconsidering the alleged ‘settled science.” See below for Climate Depot’s
reporting on the evolution of James Lovelock’s climate views.
Lovelock
on climate change science:
Inquisitr
News, 2 April 2014: Influential scientist, inventor, and
environmentalist James Lovelock is having some second thoughts about the whole
climate change thing. In the context of a doom-and-gloom United Nations climate
science report, Lovelock, 94, described the environmental movement as
becoming “a religion, and religions don’t worry too much about facts.”
Green Guru
James Lovelock says ‘we don’t know what the climate is doing’ and ‘The climate
is doing its usual tricks. There’s nothing much really happening yet’ – But
warmist Michael Mann says ‘frankly I see [Lovelock] largely as just coming back
into the fold of mainstream thinking’
Lovelock On
science:’Science is going down the drain terribly fast. It keeps dividing
itself up into expertises and these expertises probably don’t know much about
the others’ – ‘I think in order to be a fully rounded person
you have to learn to be a pro at one thing, but then you can become a
generalist’ — ‘I think the most outrageous example of climate scientists
getting it wrong and not admitting it was the 2007 IPPC report. They happily
accepted the Nobel prize, but their sea-level rise estimates, according to that
very important Science paper by Rahmstorf, were 100% wrong’Lovelock on Sea Level: ‘He & his wife Sandy downsized & moved to an old lifeguard’s cottage by beach. ‘I’m not worried about sea-level rises,’ he laughs. ‘At worst, I think it will be 2ft a century’
SHOCK: UK
Green Guru James Lovelock Reconsiders Warming Views?!: Lovelock: Man-made
Carbon Emissions ‘Have Saved Us from A New Ice Age’ – Lovelock:
‘I hate all this business about feeling guilty about what we’re doing. We’re
not guilty’ — ‘We haven’t learned the lessons of the ozone-hole debate. It’s
important to know just how much you have got to be careful’ — ‘According to Dr
Lovelock’s Gaia theory, the earth is capable of curing itself. ‘A planet that
is effectively alive can regulate itself and its composition and climate,” he
said’
James
Lovelock on Ozone hole science: ‘We should have been warned by the CFC/ozone
affair because the corruption of science in that was so bad…’ ‘Something
like 80% of the measurements being made during that time were either faked, or
incompetently done’2010 Shock: Green Guru Lovelock warms to skeptics! ‘The skeptics have kept us sane…They have kept us from regarding climate science as a religion. It had gone too far that way’
Green Guru James Lovelock Admits the Obvious: ‘Everybody might be wrong. Climate change may not happen as fast as we thought, and we may have 1,000 years to sort it out’
MSNBC April
23, 2012: ‘Gaia’ scientist James Lovelock reverses himself: I was ‘alarmist’
about climate change & so was Gore! ‘The problem is we don’t know what the
climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago’ – More MSNBC article excerpts: Lovelock
pointed to Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” and Tim Flannery’s “The Weather
Makers” as other examples of “alarmist” forecasts of the future…”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…Asked if he was now a climate
skeptic, Lovelock told msnbc.com: “It depends what you mean by a skeptic. I’m
not a denier.” He said human-caused carbon dioxide emissions were driving an
increase in the global temperature, but added that the effect of the oceans was
not well enough understood and could have a key role. “It (the sea) could make
all the difference between a hot age and an ice age,” he said. ‘I made a
mistake’ As “an independent and a loner,” he said he did not mind saying “All
right, I made a mistake.” He claimed a university or government
scientist might fear an admission of a mistake would lead to the loss of
funding.”
Even more surprising is the fact
that Lovelock is now actively campaining against renewable energy sources such
as wind power and is very pro-nuclear calling them “silly.”
Lovelock
on Energy:
Green Guru
James Lovelock laments modern green movement: ‘We never intended a
fundamentalist Green movement that rejected all energy sources other than
renewable’ – Feb. 2013 — Lovelock: ‘I am an environmentalist & founder
member of the Greens but I bow my head in shame at the thought that our
original good intentions should have been so misunderstood & misapplied. We
never intended…nor did we expect the Greens to cast aside our priceless
ecological heritage because of their failure to understand that the needs of
the Earth are not separable from human needs’
Green
‘drivel’: The godfather of global warming James Lovelock lowers the boom on
climate change hysteria — Lovelock: ‘So-called ‘sustainable
development’ … is meaningless drivel … We rushed into renewable energy without
any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I
personally can’t stand windmills at any price.’
James
Lovelock on shale gas and the problem with ‘greens’: ‘Lovelock on “fracking”:
Gas is almost a give-away in the US at the moment. They’ve gone for fracking in
a big way’ — ‘This is what makes me very cross with the greens for
trying to knock it: the amount of CO2 produced by burning gas in a good turbine
gives you 60% efficiency. In a coal-fired power station, it is 30% per unit of
fuel. So you get a two-to-one gain there straight away’Lovelock on Nuclear Energy: ‘It’s almost probably pointless to support nuclear now. The opposition to it now is just too powerful. It’s not rational opposition. It’s religious opposition’
Germany’s decision
‘to shut down all its nuclear power plants by 2022 – particularly infuriates
Lovelock: Germany has ‘this fatal flaw that they always fall for an ideologue…’‘…and
Europe has suffered intensely from the last two episodes of that. It looks to
me as if the green ideas they have picked up now could be just as damaging’
Lovelock has
‘hatred of wind power (he has a picture of a wind turbine on the wall of his
study to remind him how ‘ugly and useless they are’) — ‘He argues
that, while not perfect, it produces far less CO2 than burning coal: ‘Gas is
almost a give-away in the US at the moment. They’ve gone for fracking in a big
way. Let’s be pragmatic and sensible and get Britain to switch everything to
methane. We should be going mad on it’
UK Guardian:
‘Scientist James Lovelock is the man behind Gaia theory, and once predicted
doom for our climate’ — Lovelock ‘discusses nuclear (good), wind
power (bad) and why fracking is the future Lovelock is relaxed about how this
reversal might be perceived. He says being allowed to change your mind and
follow the evidence is one of the liberating marvels of being an independent
scientist’
James
Lovelock: ‘We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are
largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant’ — ‘I personally can’t
stand windmills at any price. Hydro, biomass, solar, etc, have all got great
promise, but they’re not available tomorrow, or even in 10 years’The global warming movement continues to lose scientists, many formerly with the UN IPCC.
Top Swedish Climate Scientist Says Warming Not Noticeable: ‘The warming we have had last a 100 years is so small that if we didn’t have climatologists to measure it we wouldn’t have noticed it at all’ – Award-Winning Dr. Lennart Bengtsson, formerly of UN IPCC: ‘We Are Creating Great Anxiety Without It Being Justified’
German Meteorologist reverses belief in man-made global warming: Now calls idea that CO2 Can Regulate Climate ‘Sheer Absurdity’ — ‘Ten years ago I simply parroted what the IPCC told us’
UN Scientists
Who Have Turned on the UN IPCC & Man-Made Climate Fears — A Climate Depot
Flashback Report - Warming fears are the “worst scientific
scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will
feel deceived by science and scientists.” – UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr.
Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.
‘Some of the
most formidable opponents of climate hysteria include politically liberal
physics Nobel laureate, Ivar Giaever; Freeman Dyson; father of the Gaia
Hypothesis, James Lovelock — ‘Left-center chemist, Fritz Vahrenholt,
one of the fathers of the German environmental movement’Watch Now: Climate Depot’s Morano on Canadian TV with Charles Adler: ‘Warmist James Lovelock recants — Warmist movement cooling — Morano: ‘This is a man, a premier guru of the Left. He joins a long list of people who used to be believers and no longer are…The left is getting the message that global warming is doing them [political] harm’
The global warming campaigner are not happy with Lovelock. See: Warmists’ throwing Lovelock under the bus! Alarmists Now Trying To Disown Their High Priest James Lovelock — Warmist caught trying to have it both ways on Lovelock: ‘The usual attempt to rewrite history. Three years ago the same author was worshiping at the alter of Gaia’
Via: http://www.thegwpf.org/james-lovelock-nobody-really-knows-
Date: April 4,
2014
BBC NewsnightJames Lovelock on BBC Newsnight: ‘I don’t think anybody really knows what’s happening’
[...] James Lovelock: 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.
Jeremy
Paxman: That latest report from the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change did suggest that there was something
inevitable about climate change, that it had already begun and that we had to
adjust to it. All of these things are true, are they not, as far as we know?James Lovelock: Absolutely, that is true, the last [IPCC] report is very similar to the statements I made in my book about 8 years ago, called The Revenge of Gaia. It’s almost as if they’ve copied it.
Jeremy
Paxman: Sure. But you then, after
publishing these apocalyptic predictions, you then retracted them.
James
Lovelock: 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.
Jeremy
Paxman: It follows from that, does it
not, that this panel on climate change which has, as you point out, vested
interests involved, may be just as likely or even more likely to make mistakes?
James
Lovelock: That would be a lot of hubris
on my part to say that, but it is possible.
Full interview on BBC Newsnight
Source:http://www.climatedepot.com/2014/04/03/green-guru-james-lovelock-on-climate-change-i-dont-think-anybody-really-knows-whats-happening-they-just-guess-lovelock-reverses-himself-on-global-warming/
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When are our elected officials going to catch
up with us ? Do we need all new elected
officials ? Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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