The earth is going to burn up, all the people are going to die, except for a few breeding pairs in the arctic.
Oh wait - Nevermind.
Posted on 04/23/2012 10:48:49 AM PDT by Olog-hai
No kidding...*eyes rolling*
>> his “Gaia” theory of the Earth as a single organism
As theories go, that one sounds, like, so *gai-a”.
More CO2 and warmer weather means more plants, which would reduce the amount of CO2.
Warmer weather means more evaporation. This causes more clouds which reflects sunlight and reduces global warming.
In comparison to water vapor, CO2 is a small contributer to global warming.
All this GW hysteria is based off a few bad models.
The problem is that your coming to conclusions when you don't know what the climate is doing. You're irresponsible and should be held accountable criminally for leading governments into wasting billions of dollars for nothing.
As for the onerous government regulations now in place and the trillions of dollars in needless expenditures heaped on struggling economies worldwide ... sorry. It was all a big mistake.
I predict a multi-pronged attack by the Commies, um, I mean, by the supporters of climate ‘science’ alarmism:
- he was quoted out of context by the lying corporate media
- his email must have been hacked
- the oil companies got to him
- he’s old and senile, don’t pay any attention to him
- 97% of ‘Peer-reviewed Climate Scientists’ (tm) say that he is dead wrong
Someone needs to call the fools at ABC News about this... they're in the tank with the nuts who want our homes to burn down...
A few horribly bad models, a bunch of falsified data and a huge political agenda to redistribute enormous amounts of wealth from industrial nations to the turd world.
The earth is going to burn up, all the people are going to die, except for a few breeding pairs in the arctic.
Oh wait - Nevermind.
The old “two steps forward, one step back” routine.
Fark ‘em all!
The climate is CHANGING?! WHAHUT?! IS IT TOO LATE TO PANIC?!!!
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The first 12 years of this century have seen more horsecrap than the first 12 years of the preceding one,,,,and they had the horses helping out.
As if it isn’t an historical fact that the climate has always “changed” to one degree or the other....beginning long before “man” came on the scene, too. DUH!
Look for these hysterical fools, and the political opportunists who use them, to double down on the “sustainability” meme now in order to justify the higher taxes they want to impose on the dumb clucks who continue to fall for the BS.
Lovelock, like the leopard, has in no way changed his “spots”. He’s STILL a dufus.
2 degrees since 1890... yeah, we should panic... yawn.
Warmer weather means more evaporation. This causes more clouds which reflects sunlight and reduces global warming.
In comparison to water vapor, CO2 is a small contributor to global warming.
All this GW hysteria is based off a few bad models.
Nuff said.
I think Michael Crichton answered that question, and so will I:
government research grants.
So... How much did he pay for those degrees? Sure, he’s 92, but he may want to see about a refund; even if it’s prorated.
Still lying for the cause. No one with half a brain thought that atmospheric dynamics were well known 20 years ago.
A few horribly bad models, a bunch of falsified data and a huge political agenda to redistribute enormous amounts of wealth from industrial nations to the turd world.”
As for climate change, there are *no* *good* *models*.
We simply do not know just what is going to happen. That is enough for the doomsayers to claim knowledge and to demand control of all the rest of us forever.
A bit of intellectual honesty for a change. I expect he will be drawn and quartered by the true believers for his heritical statement.
As an Earth Scientist, I am here to tell you that there is no known cause and effect between the concentrations of CO2, or CO in the atmosphere and the temperature change in the atmosphere.
The average concentrations of atmospheric CO2 are usually < 400 parts/million, or < 0.04 PERCENT. This extremely tiny amount of CO2 is the primary source for ALL of the Carbon for ALL of the life on Earth.
Thus, CO2 is an essential, environmentally FRIENDLY gas in low concentrations.
CH4 also supplies carbon to all life, and also has no known cause and effect on temperature change in the atmosphere, in low concentrations.
BTW, the greenhouse gas that has the largest atmospheric concentration, has been proven to have a VERY large effect on the the temperature of air, sea and land.
Many humans, throughout history, have met horrible deaths when exposed to high concentrations of the effects of this gas.
This gas is ubiquitous, as every square millimeter on the Earth has been exposed to it for millions of years.
It has be proven to also be essential for all known life on Earth.
The present concentration of this giant of green house gasses, is presently 2.5 % of the Earth’s atmosphere.
IOW, it is two orders of magnitude greater in atmospheric concentration than CO2. It is 25, 000 parts per million vs CO2’s < 400 parts per million.
Fortunately, no fear-mongering politician has yet to win an Oscar, or a Nobel Prize for trying to reduce the atmospheric concentration of this always problematic, but essential greenhouse gas.
Final clue: Santa Claus speaks the chemical formula of this gas in his famous laugh.
The guy's 92. What are they going to do; revoke his grant?
"ALL RIGHT, I MADE A MISTAKE!"
Time to SCRAP the EPA and the Energy Department.
That's what happens when you live long enough to fall afoul of your predictions Mr. Lovelock.
Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades. This is the stark conclusion of James Lovelock, the globally respected environmental thinker and independent scientist who developed the Gaia theory. …Um, did he also discover that neither the USA nor UK became totalitarian during WWII?
"I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change," said Lovelock in his first in-depth interview since the theft of the UEA emails last November. "The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful."
One of the main obstructions to meaningful action is "modern democracy", he added. "Even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being. I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while." …
The planet has feedback mechanisms that are not accounted for in their stupid computer models.
You’d think Lovelock would have realized this - it is the core concept of his Gaia theory!
I was so stupid, I actually thought I was smart.
Actually this shows the truth of President Eisenhower’s warning against the development of a governmental-academic complex where in universities and academic begin to feed off of government grants to fund their research projects. And the government fostering academics to apply for grants for government instituted ideas.
This warning was in the same speech as his often quoted military-industrial complex.
Bingo.
They don't have a clue what's happening, but they write a proscription that will cost trillions of dollars and send all but the favored few back to an 18th century lifestyle.
That nasty, deadly Dihydrogen Monoxide?
They’re arrogant and they know it and they just don’t care.
Thanks for the glow-bull warming ping.
Wow. Expect him to be lynched by progressives as a corporatist, denier, shill for Big Oil, Big Coal, and a flat earther. After they say he’s not a climatologist, therefore he doesnt know what he’s talking about.
I agree. They hold the media megaphone and can tell any lie they want. Our job is to inform people what hell their lives will become if these left wing money grubbing bastards ever get their way.
The glow-bull warming scam shows that science is for sale.
I knew it! I checked around and the warmists are condemning Lovelock as a denier. And that he’s senile and needs to be ignored. On top of that they’re saying he wasn’t alarmist enough back in the day.
Yep. The shade from the vast right-wing conspiracy of these gas particles have been known to blot out the Sun.
The same Sun that the vast left-wing conspiracy of gas-filled politicians have used to drive fear and taxes higher, and thus control the masses of lads and lasses.
BTW, our Native Americans had all this fear-mongering about weather figured out thousands of years ago: they invented the Rain Dance.
BTW, BTW, if Algore had his parade rained on, would he melt? I’m told that he has no reflection when standing in front of a mirror. Probably just a rumor - - - .
It has been 10 minutes since I watched the video on the hotlink that you provided. I am still terrified to even leave my chair.
My dogs are outside and are drinking from a swimming pool of the liquid form of that problematic greenhouse gas.
Soon I hope to get my fear under control, get my dogs inside, and turn on more lights to simulate the light from the Sun.
In a couple of days I may watch your video again, but ONLY in the daytime.
Now the race to salvage some credibility -historically.
Gee-ah...I don’t think so.
BTTT!
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