BBC News - Today - Lovelock: 'We can't save the planet'

Professor James Lovelock, the scientist who developed Gaia theory, has said it is too late to try and save the planet.
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What is more, he predicts, the earth's climate will not conveniently comply with the models of modern climate scientists.

As the record winter cold testifies, he says, global temperatures move in "jerks and jumps", and we cannot confidently predict what the future holds.
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Scientists, he says, have moved from investigating nature as a vocation, to being caught in a career path where it makes sense to "fudge the data".
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At the age of 90, Prof Lovelock is resigned to his own fate and the fate of the planet. Whether the planet saves itself or not, he argues, all we can do is to "enjoy life while you can".

Sarah Silverman Injects Some Funny Into Global Warming Debate - OnEarth Magazine

[Alarmist Emily Gertz] The evening's most surprising find was that Silverman knew her stuff. At one point she asked McAleer about his skepticism toward the famous "hockey stick" graph that shows temperature rise due to human-propelled carbon emisssions. "Is this because you hate science," she said, "or because you don't have hockey in Ireland?"

McAleer's response was to point out a cooling trend in the past several years, saying that it that invalidated the graph. Silverman rebutted that however much cooler the past decade or so may or may not have been, those lower temperatures are a blip in the record when set against the overall sharp increase in global temperature over several decades.

This may sound basic to the average climate scientist or environmental advocate. But it's a relatively subtle point that many people can't manage to articulate when challenged. Silverman carried off this and other rebuttals with aplomb.

2008 flashback: [So if it drops .7 C in a year, that's a "blip"; if it increases .7 C in a century, that's a "sharp increase"?]

Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming
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A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out most of the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.