How James Lovelock introduced Gaia to an unsuspecting world | Science Book Club | Science | guardian.co.uk

Similarly, it would be another nine years before global warming exploded as a political concern. In fact, on page 149, Lovelock is rather more concerned about the fate of the next ice age, suggesting that the presence of "a large quantity of chlorofluorocarbons" might entirely reverse the onset of glaciation, "or at least greatly diminish its severity".