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James Lovelock

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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.


— James Lovelock


#climate #could #fast #hot #jump

An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.


— James Lovelock


#host #inefficient #kills #stays #virus

China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.


— James Lovelock


#aspirations #caps #china #emit #gases

Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.


— James Lovelock


#average #being #century #degrees #different

Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem.


— James Lovelock


#been #disinformation #global #global warming #main

Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.


— James Lovelock


#damned #florida #gone #long #place

For each of our actions there are only consequences.


— James Lovelock


#consequences #each #only #our

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.


— James Lovelock


#beef #eating #food #gave #land

I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.


— James Lovelock


#always #any #anyway #engineering #genetic

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.


— James Lovelock


#god #i #know #religion #requires






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Did you know about James Lovelock?

He found a concentration of 60 parts per trillion of CFC-11 over Ireland and in a partially self-funded research expedition in 1972 went on to measure the concentration of CFC-11 from the northern hemisphere to the Antarctic aboard the research vessel RRS Shackleton. In 2005 against the backdrop of renewed UK government interest in nuclear power Lovelock again publicly announced his support for nuclear energy stating "I am a Green and I entreat my friends in the movement to drop their wrongheaded objection to nuclear energy". One of the striking things about places heavily contaminated by radioactive nuclides is the richness of their wildlife.

James Ephraim Lovelock CH CBE FRS Ph. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis which postulates that the biosphere is a self-regulating entity with the capacity to keep our planet healthy by controlling the chemical and physical environment.

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