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.
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.
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...
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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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.
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 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.
"ALL RIGHT, I MADE A MISTAKE!"
Time to SCRAP the EPA and the Energy Department.
