“Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots of examples.” IfsThinkingGivingRealityLastsAsksExampleChangedCoupleClimateDecades Author:James Lovelock
“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.” WorldHappeningsClimateTricksSupposed To BeUsualHalfwayFryingAlarmists Author:James Lovelock
“The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.” CuttingExampleRainClimateSpreadForestsDesertTropicalRainfall Author:James Lovelock
“All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.” StatesShowsHotClimateModelling Author:James Lovelock
“I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.” ThinkingHumansEnoughSituationHugeClimateComplexesClimate ChangeMeaningfulCleverHandleInertia Author:James Lovelock
“We need a more authoritative world...What's the alternative to democracy? There isn't one. But even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being. I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.” WorldNeedsMayWarFeelingsEnergyDemocracyIssuesEnvironmentApproachMajorsAgreeClimateClimate ChangeAlternativesSevere Author:James Lovelock
“I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.” MayWarFeelingsDemocracyIssuesClimateClimate ChangeGlobal WarmingSevere Author:James Lovelock
“Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.” WayDealsDemocracyMankindThreatClimateClimate ChangeGlobal WarmingUrgent Author:James Lovelock
“Perhaps the single most important thing that we can do to undo the harm we have done is to fix firmly in our minds the thought: the earth is alive.” MindImportantDoneEarthCan DoAliveImportant ThingsClimateHarm Author:James Lovelock
“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.” KnowsYearsBookProblemClearCuttingHappenedMinesYears AgoClimateAlarmists Author:James Lovelock
“We are in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and 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.” PeopleDiesCenturyFoolRemainsClimateBillionsSmokePairsBreedingArcticTolerable Author:James Lovelock
“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.” KnowsWorldShouldYearsHas BeensBookProblemClearCuttingHappenedMinesHappeningsYears AgoShould HaveConstantClimateTricksSupposed To BeRisingReasonableUsualTwelveCarbonHalfwayTemperatureShould Have BeenMillenniumCarbon DioxideFryingAlarmists Author:James Lovelock
“By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.” HumansEndsCenturyClimateClimate ChangePopulationPairsSurvivingBreedingEugenicsArcticEnviromentalHuman PopulationEnviroment Author:James Lovelock
“Those who fail to see that population growth and climate change are two sides of the same coin are either ignorant or hiding from the truth. These two huge environmental problems are inseparable and to discuss one while ignoring the other is irrational.” TwoProblemSidesGrowthFailingHugeClimateEnvironmentalClimate ChangePopulationIgnorantHidingIrrationalCoinsInseparableTwo SidesPopulation GrowthEnvironmental Problems Author:James Lovelock
“Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades.” HumansOur LivesStupidClimateClimate ChangeDecadesConservation Author:James Lovelock
“Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.” YearsHappensSeeingLifetimeClimateClimate ChangeGeological Time Author:James Lovelock
