Environmental Guru and Inventor of the "Gaia" Theory of the Living Earth James Lovelock: I Was a Climate Change "Alarmist" And So Is Al Gore

Consensus?

[Lovelock] previously painted some of the direst visions of the effects of climate change. In 2006, in an article in the U.K.�s Independent newspaper, he wrote 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.�

However, the professor admitted in a telephone interview with msnbc.com that he now thinks he had been �extrapolating too far."

Check out his previous titles.

The new book, due to be published next year, will be the third in a trilogy, following his earlier works, �Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back � and How We Can Still Save Humanity,� and �The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning: Enjoy It While You Can.�

Alarmist? Nah.

I like the two colons in the last one. He couldn't pick one alarmist title, so he linked three of them in a row.

Here's one he meant to write, but didn't:

Earth to Humans: This is Your Last Chance: I Have Your Wife and Children In a Sack: I Will Send One Finger Each Hour On The Hour Until My Demands Are Met: Don't Toy With Me, I'm A Desperate Loner With Nothing Left To Lose: PS I Want Kate Winslet To Deliver the Money: Naked

�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,� Lovelock said.

�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.

He specifically noted Al Gore's "Earth in the Balance" as examples of "alarmist" -- and therefore flawed-- claims.

Thanks to @drewmtips, aka DrewMusings.

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