environmentalgraffiti.com — Professor James Lovelock, inventor of the Gaia theory which suggests the planet acts something like a single organism, said in a recent speech that reducing greenhouse gases and moving to sustainable development will not prevent the most disastrous of global warming?s effects.
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mrshakOct 30, 2007
What you said actually makes a lot of sense. The thing is, in many poorer countries this just won't happen. My mother has so many siblings I don't even know them all properly. It's just that in most second and third world countries when you don't have protection, a job, or too much work and not enough help, you just have kids. It's kinda sad, but true.
jd420Oct 30, 2007
Maybe it is just me but it seems none of these reports / scientific types makes much exclusive reference to how rejuvenation of plant-life the world over could affect the proposed situation concerning global warming. I guess the other option is to let it grow back naturally.
Closed AccountOct 30, 2007
Nick, If you believe that you only have one responsible option. Do it.
derekgunnNov 11, 2007
When I read comments like this, I don't feel so bad that so much of the human race will be lost.
derekgunnNov 11, 2007
Actually, this is exactly his field of study. If you can name anyone on the planet who has a better background in Earth System Science, we'd be fascinated know.
derekgunnNov 11, 2007
Perhaps you could explain exactly why? I don't think you can, but prove me wrong. ;-)
derekgunnNov 11, 2007
Unfortunately, much of Earth will die, not just 90% of us.
derekgunnNov 11, 2007
Do you have any evidence for you last sentence? Or are you just guessing?An awfully large number of people here really don't want to believe this, but it doesn't make it any the less true.Visit RealClimate.org
derekgunnNov 11, 2007
Read some real scientific literature. This is NOT "Natural Earth Climate Change".You're right only in as much as that this has been a nice moderate period in Earth's history and that we can change it in the short term. We've just had the lowest Arctic ice cover ever recorded (2,000,000 km2 less than the 1978-2000 average). Lose this much again, and we'll see the worst of Lovelock's predictions come true in our lifetimes. See RealClimate.org
derekgunnNov 12, 2007
"Fingers in ears..." pretty much sums up the attitude of most people here to the most serious problem facing the world today.Unfortunately, a good many species are doomed to extinction, not just "the people".
danbloomMar 2, 2008
Gary Peters, in Post No. 36 above, quotes Sir James Lovelock?s interview in the Guardian on Saturday ? March 1, 3008 ? and it is a must-read:<a class="user" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/mar/01/scien">http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/mar/01/ ...</a> ceofclimatechange.climatechangeHe says he writing a new book now, too. To fill us in on what comes next. I don?t know if I have told anyone here this, but last month I sent some images of my polar cities concept to Dr Lovelock by email, and he wrote back the next day, saying: ?Thanks for showing me those images. It may very happen and soon.?I know Dr Lovelock has not been knighted yet by the Queen and maybe never will be, so he is not actually a ?Sir? as I kiddingly wrote above, but he certainly should be honored that way. Sir James Lovelock. Yes. Has a good ring to it.His interview in Saturday?s Guardian will knock your socks off. NSFW. But a very important interview. Read it and weep. (And then get back to work again, doing what you can to try to mitigate the impacts of climate change on this unsuspecting Earth that has been so kind to us for so many years as to give us a home for many many generations now. Soldier on, all who know that global warming is for real!) ? Posted by Danny Bloom
danbloomMar 2, 2008
POLAR CITIES might be just what we need to think about now. Lovelock told me it is a good idea, he said "It may very well happen and soon."<a class="user" href="http://pcillu101.blogspot.com">http://pcillu101.blogspot.com</a>google the term POLAR CITIES to see more info
frostekMar 31, 2010
He's 90 years old. What relevance does lots of money have when you're at that point in your life?