I have just read James Lovelock’s The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning. It surprised me that Lovelock is so hopelessly pessimistic about the abilities of climate science to forecast climate but still remains a strong proponent of the view that AGW will profoundly alter the way the human race can survive on this planet. Lovelock believes that cumulative emissions are too great and that the potential for decisive action to address climate change by mitigation too weak. Hence he believes that much of the earth is doomed. Adaptation policies will help but renewable energy technologies are largely a waste of effort and really just ‘green romanticism’ – too little too late. The humanity that does survive on earth according to Lovelock will need to live on small islands – he mentions the UK, Tasmania and New Zealand and in the far north of the northern hemisphere. Continue reading Lovelock & Lomberg on climate change
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