Thursday, January 14, 2010

AGW expert James Lovelock admits it's cooling: "In fact last year the temperature actually fell by half a degree." Is the great scientist changing his mind about climate change and global WARMING?

AGW expert James Lovelock admits it's cooling: "In fact last year the temperature actually fell by half a degree." Is the great scientist changing his mind about climate change and global WARMING?


see full story and quote from UK newspaper here:

http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Master-science-8212-time/article-1699357-detail/article.html

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Marc Morano at Climate Depot in the USA linked to this story today on his front page and that is why all the increased traffic now. He claimed, incorrectly, that Lovelock is backtracking on his global warming/global heating ideas and quotes Dr L completely out of context as saying "the Earth is cooling now, the climate activists are way off base!" but in fact, Lovelock did not say that.

Anonymous said...

"A report from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado finds that Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007." So much for Dr Lovelock's theory.

- Interglacial John, Glacial Plains of the Midwest

Anonymous said...

what LOVELOCK really said:

He said: "It looks very much as if, the way things are going, we have damn-all time.

"But who knows? I mean, look at it now. It was warming up fast at the turn of the century but, since then, it's stayed more or less constant.

"In fact last year the temperature actually fell by half a degree. So a lot of people are saying, 'Where the hell's global warming now?'

"Well, you can see it from space. It's really happening, and that'll affect the rest of the planet in time.

"The way I look at it is, if you've got a glass of a cold drink with ice in it on a hot day, it'll stay cool as long as the ice is there. But the moment all that ice melts, whoomph — it heats up straight away.

"So while the Arctic is melting — the floating ice, that is — it won't heat up all that fast. But once that's gone, and they reckon it could be anything from five to 20 years, I think the temperature will run away. It'll soar.

"What's causing it to melt? Is it natural? Well, it doesn't matter what's causing global warming. It's happening. I think Al Gore's right. Some of the heating is caused by human activity.

"But I think the planet is a self-regulating entity and it's been trying to correct what we've been doing for some time, and if the planet could think it would realise there's no point in struggling any more, so it's relaxing to the comfortable state it's been in many times before.

"The simplest example is the melting of the floating ice. When it was all ice there, which was in 1983, at the end of the summer, which isn't all that long ago, it was reflecting 80 per cent of the sunlight that fell on it back to space.

"By the time that ice is gone it'll only be reflecting 20 per cent back to space, so that's an enormous increase in the amount of sun absorbed by the polar regions, where the sun's shining 24 hours a day of course.

"So that shows just one way in which the Earth is joining in on the act of global warming, and shows why, I don't think, there's much more we can do."