cbelt3 wrote:
I await the vituperation and lynching parties. Just remember that you're going to use the hoary 'climate change denier' address on the guy that STARTED IT ALL. And at age 92, I don't think he was 'paid off by the oil industry'.
Sucks when the Holy Prophet admits that it was a lot of hooey.
davester wrote:
It sucks when you post a link to an article but you apparently don't understand any of the content. Lovelock is not a climate change denier, and he does not admit that "it was a lot of hooey". He's just saying that his former dire prediction of almost the entire human race being wiped out before the turn of the century was over the top, bringing him into line with the views of most climate scientists.
Note that Lovelock is not a researcher or even an atmospheric scientist, so doesn't have the qualifications IMHO to be making the bold proclamations he makes. He has always been a thorn in the side of actual researchers, often disregarding scientific modeling that showed that his more outlandish claims were bogus.
cbelt, I hate to say it (and not because I have anything against him) but I think davester nailed it.
On top of that, come on man, you have training in classical science. Just because you're a conservative, it doesn't mean that you have to buy into all of their issues. What do you think is going to happen when we dump CO2 that took hundreds of millions of years to sequester, into our atmosphere in a relatively short time? The geological record has a good suggestion of what will happen (periods of high CO2 levels coincided with high temps).
