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Stewart Brand: Fearless Follower of Lovelock, not science

November 14, 2010 by David Lewis
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Stewart Brand has written an online Afterword intended to update his 2009 book Whole Earth Discipline.  In it, Brand tells us that the scientist he trusts most about climate, James Lovelock, has “softened his sense of alarm about the pace of climate change”. Lovelock is now touting the gibberish of the climate denier Garth... [read more]

Boys with toys: Bill Gates funds geoengineering projects

May 12, 2010 by Tyler Hamilton
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The Ottawa Citizen has a story this morning about multibillionaire Bill Gates and his funding of projects that are aimed at controlling the Earth’s climate in the face of rising CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere and the resulting warming of the biosphere. I won’t go into too much detail, except to say that University of Calgary... [read more]

Nuclear Power: The Energy Phoenix

April 16, 2010 by Breakthrough Institute
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Nuclear power might just be energy's version of the phoenix -- rising from the metaphoric ashes to play a key role in the solution to climate change. That's the gist of a Wall Street Journal feature that points out that as climate concerns rise a number of environmentalists are rethinking their position on the viability of nuclear... [read more]

Renewable Energy Growth In China Now Greater Than Coal

April 11, 2010 by Jonathan Smith
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Federal energy policies protect fossil fuels to the detriment of life on the Planet as we know it. More specifically, federal subsidy of wealthy polluters / campaign contributors disadvantages renewable energy development at a crucial moment. Illustration: Murdo Macleod “Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change, according to... [read more]

Lovelock: Authoritarian System Needed to Deal with Global Warming

March 31, 2010 by Big Gav
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Cryptogon points to a Guardian article quoting James Lovelock saying that we may need to suspend democracy in order to deal with global warming - Lovelock: Authoritarian System Needed to Deal with Global Warming. Of course, given that he thinks humanity is doomed to collapse to a few remnant breeding pairs in the arctic, it would seem... [read more]

Buy, Bye, Gaia, hate to sea you go

July 7, 2009 by Jonathan Smith
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It has been a while since this blog ranted about destabilizing feedback. So, let’s step off-screen, shall we, and pull in James Lovelock, father of the Gaia Theory. In an interview with the New Scientist, Lovelock explained that his latest book, The Vanishing Face of Gaia, examines five dreaded positive feedback loops. Those processes... [read more]

Meeting James Lovelock

July 2, 2009 by David Hone
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James Lovelock's latest book Yesterday I travelled into rural Devon to meet with James Lovelock, the renowned author and scientist. James is the originator of the Gaia hypothesis, which proposes that the biosphere and the physical components of the Earth (atmosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere) are closely integrated to... [read more]

Creating a carbon vacuum: turn MSW into charcoal and bury it

June 22, 2009 by Tyler Hamilton
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During a recent round-table session I attended with British scientist and Gaia author James Lovelock, it was easy to walk away feeling helpless about the climate problems humanity faces. But when pressed, Lovelock said he does believe there’s potential in “biochar” — that is, converting some of the world’s biomass (e.g. forest... [read more]

Enough, Dr. Lovelock

March 30, 2009 by Lou Grinzo
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Dr. James Lovelock is speaking out again, and once again I find myself wondering just how long we are required to (or will) continue to listen to him because he authored the Gaia Hypothesis. While I seldom mention Lovelock, he’s been in the news off and on in recent months, usually saying something quite extreme about how we’re likely... [read more]