Climate Scientist Says He Was ‘Extrapolating Too Far’

[Locutus]

'Gaia' scientist James Lovelock: I was 'alarmist' about climate change



By Ian Johnston, msnbc.com

James Lovelock, the maverick scientist who became a guru to the environmental movement with his “Gaia” theory of the Earth as a single organism, has admitted to being “alarmist” about climate change and says other environmental commentators, such as Al Gore, were too.

Lovelock, 92, is writing a new book in which he will say climate change is still happening, but not as quickly as he once feared.

He previously painted some of the direst visions of the effects of climate change. In 2006, in an article in the U.K.’s Independent newspaper, he wrote that “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.”

However, the professor admitted in a telephone interview with msnbc.com that he now thinks he had been “extrapolating too far."


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[DaSleeper]

The sky isn't falling

 

[eh1eh]

If you're born now none of this sh1t will affect you anyways. No need to be alarmist.

 

[coldstream]

The campaign of fear and hysteria run by the AGW lobby has put them in between a rock and a hard place. None of their dire warnings have materialized, in fact there is no evidence at all that ANY of their predictions have come true. Islands are not being inundated, the polar ice caps are not melting, species are not disappearing.

We have had the normal cycles of above and below average temperatures around a mean that has not changed. They needed to create a climate of panic to get their political agenda through.. but now are left with with nothing to show.. and countries are starting to bail out of Kyoto as an expensive fiasco for a non existent threat.

Well i say fool me once shame on you.. fool me twice shame on me. Are we going to believe these more moderate predictions now.. when the only logical conclusion.. is they've been lying to us from the get go. They have no science... and AGW is a philosophical/political agenda and nothing more.. viciously anti human and anti technology.

 

[taxslave]

The campaign of fear and hysteria run by the AGW lobby has put them in between a rock and a hard place. None of their dire warnings have materialized, in fact there is no evidence at all that ANY of their predictions have come true. Islands are not being inundated, the polar ice caps are not melting, species are not disappearing.

We have had the normal cycles of above and below average temperatures around a mean that has not changed. They needed to create a climate of panic to get their political agenda through.. but now are left with with nothing to show.. and countries are starting to bail out of Kyoto as an expensive fiasco for a non existent threat.

Well i say fool me once shame on you.. fool me twice shame on me. Are we going to believe these more moderate predictions now.. when the only logical conclusion.. is they've been lying to us from the get go. They have no science... and AGW is a philosophical/political agenda and nothing more.. viciously anti human and anti technology.

All the usual suspects will accuse you of being in de Nile.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

The sky isn't falling

Well, according to him it is just not as fast as predicted. Apparently sky falling rates are not a constant.