James Lovelock’s Amazing Flip on Climate Change Opinions

2006 Opinions

Writing in the British newspaper The Independent in January 2006, Lovelock argued that, as a result of global warming, “billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable” by the end of the 21st century.

2012 Opinions

“The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t happened;” he continues

“The climate is doing its usual tricks. There’s nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now,” he said

The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time … it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising – carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that”, he added.

Climate Change=Religion

He criticizes environmentalists for treating global warming like a religion.^[33]

“It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion,” Lovelock observed

“I don’t think people have noticed that, but it’s got all the sort of terms that religions use … The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can’t win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air.”^[33]

Other Opinions

In a follow up interview Lovelock stated his support for natural gas; he now favors fracking (which environmentalists oppose), as a low-polluting alternative to coal.^[33][13] He opposes the concept of ‘sustainable development’, where modern economies might be powered by wind turbines, calling it meaningless drivel. ^[33] He keeps a poster of a wind turbine to remind himself how much he detests them.^[13]

Words of Wisdom

“One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don’t know it.”

Source

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock

Funny Sunday- Al Gore Meme

Al Gore’s Reaction to Record Antarctic Ice

Why Aren’t They Talking About Greenland Any More?

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Team climate moron flew into Greenland for two hours this summer, but for some reason they no longer seem interested.

Weather Forecast Summit, Greenland | Summit Weather | Wunderground

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97% Of Greenland Says That NASA Is FOS

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Greenland ice sheet melted at unprecedented rate during July | Environment | guardian.co.uk

NASA simply can`t turn off the BS. Here is the actual satellite photo from July 12 – no indication of melt in the interior

Here is the same photo from July 7 – looks identical

Below is the Summit webcam on July 9, at -19C  This was supposed to be right in the middle of the NASA big melt.

summit:status:webcam

Where is the big melt, NASA? temperatures got barely above freezing for a few hours, and NASA declares a meltdown

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Winter of 2009-2010 Was The Sixth Coldest In US History

Wow!

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According to USHCN raw monthly data, the winter of 2009-2010 was the sixth coldest in US history, and the winter of 2010-2011 was the 12th coldest. Here are the bottom fifteen.

1969	41.0786
1993	40.9247
2001	 40.8844
2011	 40.8729
1929	40.855
1904	40.5274
1912	40.2707
1918	40.1764
1910	39.6226
2010	 39.2367
1905	38.972
1978	38.7018
1899	38.6614
1936	38.5283
1979	37.5731

Our friends on the left are hoping that you are stupid and have a very short term memory.

Snow present in 49 of the 50 U.S. states – This Just In – CNN.com Blogs

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What the 1930s Look Like

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Last week our friends were saying that heat waves, fires and flooding are what global warming looks like. 

Climate Change: U.S. Heat Waves, Wildfires And Flooding Are ‘What Global Warming Looks Like’

It turns out that they were actually talking about the 1930s.

www.epa.gov/climate/climatechange/pdfs/print_heat-waves.pdf

http://trove.nla.gov.au/

There have been 34,000 fires this year, compared to 185,000 in 1939.

http://news.google.com/newspapers

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How Are Climate Change Skeptics and Galileo Related?

Galileo

• Believed the Earth revolved around the Sun
• Most people, including the Catholic Church believed the Earth was the center of the universe
• There was pretty much a consensus that the Earth was the center of the universe. People like Galileo where minorities, in this situation.
• Galileo had the evidence that the Earth revolved around the Sun, but it was ignored because it was a new idea, and the people at the Catholic Church didn’t like that it was going against their idea.
• Galileo was put under house arrest in 1633, just for his beliefs

Climate Change Skeptics

• Believe Climate Change is natural, and is not caused by man
• A majority of people believe in Climate Change. Some even thing there is a consensus between scientists.
• Have evidence against Climate Change, but new ideas are simply ignored

Here’s The Evidence

All Credit to Joe Bastardi

All Credit: Mail Online

All Credit: Ryan N. Maue

Climate Change Did Not Cause the Colorado Wildfires

Many probably are automatically blaming the Colorado wildfires on “Climate Change”, but this isn’t the truth. There are several factors that prove this wrong.

1. We currently are in a cold PDO and warm AMO, which averages much of the West in drier than normal (in red). Drier than normal conditions means these areas are more likely to have wildfires starting up.

Via http://icecap.us

2.Drought, verified.  The map above (Cool Pacific, warm Atlantic) match up nearly exactly with the current drought in the West.  http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/DM_west.htm3. The Earth hasn’t even warmed, the past 15 years.

Via http://policlimate.com/climate

4. This kind of weather isn’t new. Even a mega drought occurred 900 years ago, in the past http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111106151505.htm#.T8wEwI3aDj0.twitter

5. Climate is always changing! There are many times that were hotter than today. This would include the Medieval Warm Period. Temperatures are actually cool, compared to then. There have been times that both the Arctic and Antarctic were ice free. There were times of mega droughts, and floods in the past.

6. Only 0.04% of the atmosphere is made up of CO2, and humans make up 3% of that. How can we have any effect on climate?

7. There is a lag between CO2 and temperature. Temperature changes before CO2.

Global Warming Scam Has Gone Too Far

You don’t think the Global Warming scam has gone too far? Think again. Carnegie Institute wants to spray aerosols high into the atmosphere to block the sun. Why? It will cool Earth’s temperature. This all traces back to the lie that Earth’s temperature continues to rise, caused by the emissions of CO2. The fact is, CO2 makes up less than 1% of the atmosphere. Humans contribute to 3% of that, while 97% of CO2 is released by plants. How can man contribute at all to Global Warming? I don’t see how people believe the hyped up crap out there, from media.  Below is a chart off of Ryan Maue’s site, verifying temperatures haven’t warmed at all, the past 10 years.

from policlimate.com

Carnegie Institute could probably care less. If this junk is put into the atmosphere, it will have health effects on us.  It would also change the color of the sky, create artificial clouds, and decrease sunlight that hits Earth’s surface. You can read the whole story here: http://www.prisonplanet.com/carnegie-institute-calls-for-spraying-aerosols-to-block-the-sun.html

Watts Up With That?

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No, this isn’t a joke, it isn’t a fake document, and it isn’t a misinterpretation. It is a paper published by Dr. James Hansen (and the GISS team) in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences). In the paper (published in 2000, but long since buried) they make these two bold statements (emphasis mine):

..we argue that rapid warming in recent decades has been driven mainly by non-CO₂ greenhouse gases (GHGs), such as chlorofluorocarbons, CH₄, and N₂O, not by the products of fossil fuel burning, CO₂ and aerosols..

If sources of CH₄ and O₃ precursors were reduced in the future, the change in climate forcing by non-CO₂ GHGs in the next 50 years…

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