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Posted on 12/26/2015 2:42:15 PM PST by presidio9
In 1965 executives at Shell wanted to know what the world would look like in the year 2000. They consulted a range of experts, who speculated about fusion-powered hovercrafts and "all sorts of fanciful technological stuff". When the oil company asked the scientist James Lovelock, he predicted that the main problem in 2000 would be the environment. "It will be worsening then to such an extent that it will seriously affect their business," he said.
"And of course," Lovelock says, with a smile 43 years later, "that's almost exactly what's happened."
Lovelock has been dispensing predictions from his one-man laboratory in an old mill in Cornwall since the mid-1960s, the consistent accuracy of which have earned him a reputation as one of Britain's most respected - if maverick - independent scientists. Working alone since the age of 40, he invented a device that detected CFCs, which helped detect the growing hole in the ozone layer, and introduced the Gaia hypothesis, a revolutionary theory that the Earth is a self-regulating super-organism. Initially ridiculed by many scientists as new age nonsense, today that theory forms the basis of almost all climate science.
For decades, his advocacy of nuclear power appalled fellow environmentalists - but recently increasing numbers of them have come around to his way of thinking. His latest book, The Revenge of Gaia, predicts that by 2020 extreme weather will be the norm, causing global devastation; that by 2040 much of Europe will be Saharan; and parts of London will be underwater.
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The $hit did hit the fan in 2008. It’s name is Emperor Zero.
The only way it is affecting business — is from the bone headed regulations governments are imposing.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
No, James, it didn’t.
If the Sun puts more energy into the earth's thermodynamic domain than leaves the system, then the result is more energy likely in the form of heat. The earth has gone through warm and cold periods many times. I would venture a guess that the Sun had a variable input given changes in precession, orbital paths, and revolution inclination as well as cyclical solar activity. I would also venture a guess that ocean circulations, volcanic activity, and variations in atmospheric makeup resulting from the formation of life and subsequent changes has regulated output of energy from the earth. There is no violation of thermodynamic principle in changing earth temperatures.
(he predicted that the main problem in 2000 would be the environment. “It will be worsening then to such an extent that it will seriously affect their business,” he said.
“And of course,” Lovelock says, with a smile 43 years later, “that’s almost exactly what’s happened.”)
“almost exactly”? It’s freaking miles from what’s happened! It takes a special kind of delusion to describe the opposite of reality as reality, to show that one’s predictions came to pass when they didn’t.
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In Japan, white is the color of death. Does that mean that all melanin-challenged people should go protest this aggression against their color?
Oops, wrong thread.
Now then, that was "almost exactly" what happened, wasn't it?
When one delves through all the lies and deceptions, it still looks like an ice age is the more likely of the two....
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