Doomsday Pending? James Lovelock on The Hour

http://www.cbc.ca/thehour

James Lovelock is an independent scientist, he works in a lab that used to be a barn in Cornwall, England.
For years now, he's been sounding the alarm on climate change.
He says we can't undo the damage we've done and that by the end of this century many places on earth will be unliveable.
If that weren't bad enough, most of the human race will be wiped out.
So, we shouldn't waste our time trying to reverse climate change.
Instead, he says we should focus on finding ways to survive the inevitable ahead.
He lays it all out in his new book 'The Vanishing Face of Gaia.'

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[mke1ms]

can i just say I think this guy is a great interviewer. I'm from the netherlands, never heard of the hour and just stumbled on a couple of interviews on youtube. Intelligent, respectful, balanced. This guy rocks.

[TheOliver68]

we are killing the planet,everybody knows this,the earth 1910 and the earth 2010 are 2 very differant places now

[TheADrago]

@TheOliver68 I agree with this comment very much, and i would also like to add is that 95% of the people around today simply werent around back in 1910 to remember. What we never witnessed is what we will always brush aside until the day comes where we are confronted with that exact issue.

[ledzeppie]

When Lovelock says that it's completely irreversible, I don't know if I'd say that that is completely true. I'm a geography student and one of my Profs is working on pumping liquified CO2 deep down into ocean basins. He estimates that the CO2 will stay down there for 25,000 years. Of course this won't completely stop it, but carbon scrubbing can actually contribute a pretty good chunk to reducing overall CO2 levels.

[MrNewkingjames]

Giants were the offspring of Gia daugters of men and URANUS (sons of heaven)

This fact is described in Gen.6 of the bible Bnoth adumah(daughters of men) and the Gborrim (mighty ones) who were also angels who were imprisoned for corrupting the earth and causing the flood of NOAH.

[PostHypnoticPress]

James Lovelock's "Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning" is now available as an audiobook, read by the talented Simon Vance. Check it out at Post Hypnotic Press.

[bigman25plus25]

@smurfieboo Because life causes the flux. He provided evidence that life, from giant trees down to even the smallest microbes, produce products that are either toxic or beneficial to the environment (not the planet, its environment). This is unstable (over the very long term) and creates a fluxuating system. As for gravity, type in Einstein's 'relativity of time'.

[fl260]

JAMES LOVELOCK ON THE HOUR?

...WOW

[smurfieboo]

This guy contradicts himself: If the Earth is control of its own regulation then how does one explain the constant flux. What he should argue is that the Earth has certain traits which helps it to adjust to its own change (like the human body). After all, it's not removed from the universe as we are not removed from nature. Take gravity, it's reliant on planets millions of lightyears away from us as must as the moon. This guy wants to pick and choose what makes the Earth work.

[carioca56]

Thank the heavens for people such as this.

Clear thinking, charming, personable, and informed.