James Lovelock Quotes - Page 3

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• Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.

  James Lovelock

  Years, Climate, Lifetime

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• 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 now. The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time. The temperature has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.

  James Lovelock

  Book, Cutting, Should Have

  "Scientist cools on climate alarmism". www.theaustralian.com.au. April 26, 2012.

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• We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science

  James Lovelock

  Future, Ignorance, Feelings

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• This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.

  James Lovelock

  Crazy, War, Sigh Of Relief

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• 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, World, Degrees

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• If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.

  James Lovelock

  Years, Evolution, Mechanic

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• The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.

  James Lovelock

  Climate, Usual, World

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• Let's make hay while it lasts.

  James Lovelock

  Hay, Lasts

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• We are in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and 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.

  James Lovelock

  People, Climate, Fool

  "James Lovelock: The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years". www.independent.co.uk. January 16, 2006.

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• Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

  James Lovelock

  Country, War, Numbers

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• I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

  James Lovelock

  Religious, Way, Standards

  "James Lovelock on the value of sceptics and why Copenhagen was doomed". www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2010.

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• There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

  James Lovelock

  Littles, Individual, Evidence

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• Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots of examples.

  James Lovelock

  Couple, Reality, Thinking

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• You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

  James Lovelock

  Second Guessing

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• I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.

  James Lovelock

  Views, Personal Views

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• I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

  James Lovelock

  Thinking, Awful, Pessimist

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

  James Lovelock

  America, Global Warming, Problem

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• The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time... it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.

  James Lovelock

  Should Have, Years, Twelve

  "Climate change alarmist warnings all hot air, says British scientist James Lovelock". www.dailytelegraph.com.au. April 24, 2012.

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• Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant - and 99% of them are - you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if you do.

  James Lovelock

  Mistake, Grants, Dependent

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• No one who has experienced the intense involvement of computer modeling would deny that the temptation exists to use any data input that will enable one to continue playing what is perhaps the ultimate game of solitaire.

  James Lovelock

  Science, Data, Games

  James Lovelock (1987). “Gaia: a new look at life on earth”, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  James Lovelock

  Florida, Long, Gone

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• I wouldn't be against them (large wind turbines) if they actually worked.

  James Lovelock

  Wind, Wind Turbines, Turbines

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• A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.

  James Lovelock

  Running, Earth, Planets

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• What I tend to do is to wake about five in the morning-this happens quite often-think about the invention, and then image it in my mind in 3D, as a kind of construct. Then I do experiments with the image...sort of rotate it, and say, 'Well what'll happen if one does this?' And by the time I get up for breakfast I can usually go to the bench and make a string and sealing wax model that works straight off, because I've done most of the experiments already.

  James Lovelock

  Morning, Thinking, Imagination

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• If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

  James Lovelock

  War, America, Space

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