Website review: The Prophet of Climate Change: Jam...
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•6 reviews since Oct 20, 2007
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Kodan rated 7 months ago- I am not a scientist, but climate is not going to change in that catastrophic way, because if we a scratch history of climate changes we will see the rhythm of that changes, tempo is very, very slow, so slow...hysteria about changes sails many things, and some people got special awards for , let say , care ...but thus somebody ask Sun why producing such activity, thanks for attention, all the best for the days in future of next, Kodan
- Orion67 rated 7 months ago
- From the page: "James Lovelock has come to an unsettling conclusion: The human race is doomed. "I wish I could be more hopeful,"" Although he emits the above pessimistic comment, the article in general is good reading.
- pseudonym rated 7 months ago
- I just finished reading this rather lengthy--but interesting--article. I do not necessarily agree with all of James Lovelock's predictions; nonetheless, I picked up quite a bit of general knowledge by reading this. I "buy" his view that earth is an alive superorganism of a sort that is, to some extent, self-regulating. Related Link(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock
- laodan rated 7 months ago
- The Prophet of Climate Change: James Lovelock in Rolling Stones by Jeff Goodell
If such predictions were coming from anyone else, you would laugh them off as the ravings of an old man projecting his own impending death onto the world around him. But Lovelock is not so easily dismissed. As an inventor, he created a device that helped detect the growing hole in the ozone layer and jump-start the environmental movement in the 1970s. And as a scientist, he introduced the revolutionary theory known as Gaia -- the idea that our entire planet is a kind of superorganism that is, in a sense, "alive." Once dismissed as New Age quackery, Lovelock's vision of a self-regulating Earth now underlies virtually all climate science. Lynn Margulis, a pioneering biologist at the University of Massachusetts, calls him "one of the most innovative and mischievous scientific minds of our time." The Prophet of Climate Change: James Lovelock Lovelock's holistic vision is an antidote to twentieth-century science that fragmented the world into parcels unconnected to one another. In Lovelock's view, now shared by most scientists, the earth is a single, self-regulating system comprised of physical, chemical, biological and living organisms interacting upon one another. A complex system he called Gaia. What's most thought provoking, fascinating, and many should say controversial in Lovelock's approach is his idea that sustainable development is wrongheaded. He believes indeed that "we should be thinking about sustainable retreat" instead of sustainable development in order to maximize the chances of civilization to survive a coming collapse of the world population that could bring down human civilizations...
- The Prophet of Climate Change: James Lovelock in Rolling Stones by Jeff Goodell
- definitiveturbo rated 7 months ago
- From the page: "One of the most eminent scientists of our time says that global warming is irreversible â€" and that more than 6 billion people will perish by the end of the century Jeff Goodell"
- preston41 rated 7 months ago
- From the page: "One of the most eminent scientists of our time says that global warming is irreversible â€" and that more than 6 billion people will perish by the end of the century"
