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BBC News – Today – Lovelock: ‘We can’t save the planet’.
Well finally, something sane from a person reasonably familiar with the whole climate change debate. While it was this scientist who expressed that people were too stupid to do anything about climate change, he now expresses his belief that:
“… the earth’s climate will not conveniently comply with the models of modern climate scientists. As the record winter cold testifies, he says, global temperatures move in “jerks and jumps”, and we cannot confidently predict what the future holds…”
In addition:
Prof Lovelock does not pull his punches on the politicians and scientists who are set to gain from the idea that we can predict climate change and save the planet ourselves. Scientists, he says, have moved from investigating nature as a vocation, to being caught in a career path where it makes sense to “fudge the data”.
Let’s get real here. The planet has been around a long time and will continue to be around long after the current hysteria of doom wears off. It’s as if after millions of years of existence, man’s effect on earth over the past 100 years will doom all life forms. There have been ‘end of the earth’ guys around forever because I suppose it sells newspapers. It’s truly ironic that with the supposed increase in access to information afforded to all in the modern age, there has not been the commensurate uptick in common sense. Perhaps it’s the phenomenon of too much information and people are lazy and prefer to have it distilled for them. So we can’t blame it all on the people with their hair on fire, people have to blame their own naivete. As an illustration of this, John Stossel, a consumer reporter, ex of ABC and now with Fox News went around New York recently with a petition in hand to solicit people to ban “di-hydrogen oxide”. This product was odorless and tasteless but was pitched as a danger to mankind.
As you can guess, he was able to sign up almost everybody he asked even though the product he was referring to was H2O, which is of course, water. The issue going forth is how to push back against those who are deeply mired in the global warming crap and feel they must dig deeper in order to save face. This professor Lovelock has done that to his credit. Will Gore and the gang put down their shovels? Methinks not. He will continue to dig.