Monday, February 23, 2009

About alarmist James Lovelock

The Vanishing Face of Gaia...
He refused to use the shaved and anaesthetised rabbits that were provided as potential burn victims, and instead exposed his own skin to heat radiation (“exquisitely painful”).

In other matters he was less squeamish. The laboratory kept stores of human blood for experiments, which was tipped away after 30 days. To Lovelock this seemed wasteful at a time of food rationing, so he took some home and tried mixing it with dried egg for omelettes (“quite palatable”).
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...he has been allocated a seat on Richard Branson's [fossil-fueled] Virgin Galactic, so that he may at last see Gaia from space.
James Lovelock: You Ask The Questions - Profiles, People - The Independent
When Malthus first warned of the overpopulation of the Earth in 1800, there were only one billion of us. He has been derided ever since, yet I think he was right. One billion is about the right number and I fear that we will reach it not by our own choice but by attrition.
The Prophet of Climate Change: James Lovelock : Rolling Stone
At the age of eighty-eight, after four children and a long and respected career as one of the twentieth century's most influential scientists, James Lovelock has come to an unsettling conclusion: The human race is doomed.

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