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Climate Change Alarmist Recants: ‘I Made a Mistake’
British environmental expert James Lovelock now admits he was an “alarmist” regarding global warming — and says Al Gore was too.
Lovelock previously worked for NASA and became a guru to the environmental movement with his “Gaia” theory of the Earth as a single organism. In 2007 Time magazine named Lovelock one of its “Heroes of the Environment,” and he won the Geological Society of London’s Wollaston Medal in 2006 for his writings on the Gaia theory.
That year he wrote an article in a British newspaper asserting that “before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.”
But in an interview this week with MSNBC, Lovelock said a book he is now writing will reflect his new opinion that global warming has not occurred as he had expected.
“The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing,” he said. “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.
“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.
“The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time. [The temperature] has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising. Carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.
“We will have global warming, but it’s been deferred a bit.”
MSNBC reported: “He pointed to Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and Tim Flannery’s ‘The Weather Makers’ as other examples of ‘alarmist’ forecasts of the future.”
Lovelock also declared in the interview that “as an independent and a loner,” he did not mind saying, “All right, I made a mistake,” adding that university or government scientists might fear that admission of such a mistake could jeopardize their funding.
In response to Lovelock’s interview, the Climate Depot website stated: “MSNBC, perhaps the most unlikely of news sources, reports on what may be seen as the official end of the manmade global warming fear movement.”
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Permalink Reply by XLFD on
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Man-made global warming is not the problem; man-made global warming fear is the problem. The fear of global warming is what drives misguided policies and legislation, much like the fear of terrorism and computer hacking has been of recent. The reduction of civil liberties and on-line freedom and privacy is the result. Both political parties have learned that fear of bogeymen can gain them power and/or financial gain. The losers: everyone else.
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Permalink Reply by Willy on
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Just think how much this has cost us. Billions in subsidies for these monster windmills with entire communities divided over those monsters. The inefficient wind energy industry, the solar boondoggle money pits and a host of other wasteful programs that have swallowed our tax dollars. Our own Government is trying to shut down our coal fueled power plants and how about that crazy Kyoto Protocol and the buying and selling of European energy [carbon] credits. The longer I live the more I realize just how many people never grew up but remained naive children emotionally. So easy to control, dissuade and manipulate.
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Permalink Reply by Dave on
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I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times, climate change has been happening for millions of years and will continue to do so. Man of course has had minimal if any affect on the climate. Millions of years of climate cycles is a lot easier to have faith in then people that trust only about 150 years of actual temperature readings and 'think' they know what core readings mean.
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Permalink Reply by easymoney on
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I posted this video on an earlier post, about regulating children working family farms, but, it covers just about everything going on in this country concerning energy.
http://freemarketamerica.org/if-i-wanted america to fail/
If this doesn't cover it all, I don't know what does?
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I've watched it a couple of times cause I find it to be very powerful. I personaly think everyone should watch it. I've sent it to every-one on my mailing list.
Only wish I knew how to post the actual video
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easy
I asked X the same question and he posted instructions on this forum. I provided a link below.
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It's kind of scary when you think about how closely these topics we discuss here are linked with very little degree of separation. The DNR regulating what pigs you raise, keeping farmer's kids from working on the farm, global warming alarmism, alternate energy mandates, etc., all seem to run counter to capitalistic market forces and work towards bigger government and bigger corporations favored by that big government.
And, unfortunately, it even has filtered down to the state and local level.
Keep trying to post it Easy, and if you still don't have success, let me know the problem and I will make a better primer for you.
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Our favorite blowhard speaks.. of course he still hasn't gotten the memo that global warming isn't what he thinks it is. And of course he lies when he says 97% to 98% of the world's scientist attest to the veracity that global warming is happening.
Al Gore at Hampshire College: Global warming is real and needs to be addressed now
AMHERST — Former Vice president Al Gore on Friday refuted claims that global warning is a myth, saying that 97 to 98 percent of the worlds’ scientists attest to its veracity.
Gore was the keynote speaker at the inauguration of Hampshire College President Jonathan Lash Friday. The theme of Lash’s inauguration was “Educating for Change: critical thinking in a critical time.”
“Now there are some talk radio show hosts, they say that (global warming is) not (real)," Gore said. "It’s up to you; my point is we must respond. What the scientists tell us is going to take place if we do not is too awful to contemplate.”
Just before Gore spoke, he was introduced by Hampshire alumnus Gary Hirshberg, co-founder of the New Hampshire-based Stonyfield Farm, who announced a $1 million donation to the college for its commitment to the environment.
Gore, who spoke for about 20 minutes before the more than 2,000 people who packed the tent on the campus lawn, told stories about growing up in Nashville, Tenn., at a time of the civil rights movement and the need to address injustice. He spent just a few minutes addressing the environment and global warming.
In 2007, Gore won the Nobel Prize with the U.N Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “An Inconvenient Truth,” a film about his campaign to educate people about global warming, won two Oscars in 2006. Since then some have contested the veracity of the claims that climate change is caused by humans.
Gore said that some claim environmental change is caused by sunspots or volcanoes. ”That’s not true. It’s an urgent problem that requires urgent attention and must be addressed,” he said.
Gore told students that some doubted the wisdom of President John F. Kennedy saying in the early 1960s that the United State would land on the moon within a decade. “You will have the opportunity to do things greater than you can possibly imagine," Gore said. "And now is the time. We need an American spring this spring. We need to occupy democracy.”
Those remarks drew wild applause. Gore did not take questions or meet with the media. According to campus officials, he was on a tight schedule. He and Lash have been friends for decades.
In his remarks following officially becoming the sixth president of Hamphire College, Lash also spoke of his concern for the environment. “I think what we are doing to our earth is stupid, wrong, short-sighted and completely unnecessary,” Lash, who described himself as a "card-carrying greenie," said.
Lash referred to this time as belonging to the Anthropocene era, which some scientists are calling a new geologic era.
“Part of my role at Hampshire will be to be relentless and ambitious about what our community can do to live, and prepare our students to thrive in the Anthropocene," Lash said. "How can we link our farm and our food, our curriculum and our operations, our understanding of culture and art, and our notion of humankind's place on earth to make a difference in the course of events.”
He outlined seven ways in which the college is addressing these issues, including a climate action project to make the college operations “climate neutral” in 10 years. Another project is a major upgrade of the Robert Crown Center that will result in a major reduction of carbon dioxide emissions and hundreds of thousands of dollars in energy savings. And with money from Hirschberg, he said the college is undertaking a “comprehensive program seeking transitions in the way Hampshire feeds itself, uses its farm, operates its campus…and defines its culture.”
The two-hour ceremony featured many speakers welcoming Lash and musical interludes.http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/04/al_gore_at_hampshire...
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