Lovelock Admits He was Wrong About Climate

Timothy Birdnow

Turns out the Pope isn't Catholic after all!

James Lovelock was the creator of the Gaia theory and pretty much Il Papa to the Holy Church of Climate Change.

Now even he is admitting anthropogenic global warming alarmism is a crock.

From the Daily Mail article:

Environmental scientist James Lovelock, renowned forhis terrifying predictions of climate change's deadly impact on the planet, has gone back on his previous claims, admitting they were 'alarmist'.

The 92-year-old Briton, who also developed the Gaia theory of the Earth as a single organism, has said climate change is still happening - just not as quickly as he once warned.

He added that other environmental commentators, such as former vice president Al Gore, are also guilty of exaggerating their arguments.

The admission comes as a devastating blow to proponents of climate change who regard Lovelock as a powerful figurehead.

Five years ago, he had claimed: '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 with msnbc.com, he admitted: 'I made a mistake.'

He said: 'The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing,' he told'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.

'[The temperature] has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.'

Of course there were many of us who knew this all along - and who tried to act as a voice of reason in a panic-driven campaign to fundamentally transform our way of life.

We were called kooks. We were called pawns of Big Oil. We were called liars and hypocrites. And now we can be called vindicated.

I think Lovelock realizes his legacy will be that he was wrong and died wrong. He wants to salvage his reputation before he goes under.

Of course, he has done immense damage to our world by his hysteria over the years.

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