Global warming guru admits he was wrong about climate change
James Lovelock, circa 2005, scientist and author best known for the Gaia hypothesis.
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The global warming scam has been over for a long time, but there are still die-hard fanatics out there. Climate scientist James Lovelock is about to break the clue bat over their heads.
Lovelock is a legendary guru of the global warming movement, and the author of books entitled The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back – and How We Can Still Save Humanity and The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning: Enjoy It While You Can. It turns out you’ll have plenty of time to enjoy it, because Lovelock, at age 92, is writing a new book in which he admits he was an “alarmist” and all of his earlier predictions were totally wrong.
No, really. Here’s what he says, as reported by MSNBC:
“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.
He pointed to Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” and Tim Flannery’s “The Weather Makers” as other examples of “alarmist” forecasts of the future.
This is exactly the kind of stuff that gets reasonable people denounced as the equivalent of “Holocaust deniers” by the enraged primitives of the global-warming cult. Later in the MSNBC interview, Lovelock says “I’m not a denier,” even though he did, in fact, just deny the whole rotten anthropogenic global warming con job.
He also says humanity should still “do our best to cut back on fossil fuel burning.” Why? He just admitted he was totally wrong about its effects, and it’s not a question of shortages, because contrary to the lie repeated by President Obama, we’ve got hundreds of years’ worth of fossil fuels available to us. I guess we have to cut back on this stuff because it’s just plain evil. Also, it smells funny.
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On the other hand, I am thankful to them at the same time, because the total crap of their claims drew me back to Earth Sciences 10 years ago as I heard to call to refute the rubbish they were propagating to the public.
I remember thinking at the time, 'is that some sort of get out clause?' because Al Gore would certainly have known then or possibly even 7-8 years ago that the wheels would come falling of the Global Warming scam. Even at that time 2008/9 Gore had made his money and had feathered his nest and it wouldn't make any difference to him.
Any thoughts on this folks?
Can you think of anything more self-serving?!
The logic I apply to this thinking is:
1) If we do something to curb GW and GW abates, we can know that we were right.
2) If we do nothing about GW and GW gets worse, we will be guilty for having waited
3) if we do something to curb GW and GW doesn't change or gets worse, we will know that we must do more
OR
4) if we do nothing about GW and GW gets worse, we know that must do more NOW.
All 4 cases would demonstrate that action is necessary. But no-matter-what happened or who-did-what, we would be subject to the judgements of those who impose the actions, regulations, penalties to tell the rest of teh world whether we were sucessful or failed to save the world.
If we left the Go/No-go choice to the Global Warming Collective, we would be screwed in every case.