The Godfather of the alarmist warming movement now tells us that things are not as bad as we had first believed.

<<<<<  The godfather of the warming movement now says, "it ain't happening"  as we thought.  In fact, global warming is helping to prevent another ice age (and "cold" is much more disastrous to mankind  than the longer growing seasons of protracted  "warming" trends)  

James Lovelock created the Gaia Theory,  which is used to argue that what man does in Compton or the industrialized Northeast (U.S.) effects all of Mother Earth.  He invented the "electron capture detector" in 1957 (he just retired at age 92) which is used to measure pollutants including chloro-floro-carbon.  The following story was found in the Toronto Sun (that's Canada, folks), a story you will never see in an American Leftist paper or on American Leftist news cast.  I hasten to add that while parts of my report here at the Review,  came from "msnbc.com."  I can find no mention of Dr. Lovelock's comments at MSNBC, the comedic version of televised news.   He has since repented of the following:   

In 2006, in an article in the U.K.’s Independent newspaper, he wrote that “before this century  is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.” (see the full article at msnbc.com)  

Understand that the msnbc.com interview reflects his new opinion that global warming has not occurred as he had expected.  “The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t happened,” Lovelock said.  “The climate is doing its usual tricks. There’s nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now,” he said.   “The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time… it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising -- carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that,” he added. (also, from the  msnbc.com article)

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From the Toronto Sun :

Among his observations to the Guardian:

(1) A long-time supporter of nuclear power as a way to lower greenhouse gas emissions, which has made him unpopular with environmentalists, Lovelock has now come out in favor of natural gas fracking (which environmentalists also oppose), as a low-polluting alternative to coal.As Lovelock observes, “Gas is almost a give-away in the U.S. at the moment. They’ve  gone for fracking in a big way. This is what makes me very cross with the greens for trying to knock it … Let’s be pragmatic and sensible and get Britain to switch everything to methane. We should be going mad on it.” 

(Kandeh Yumkella, co-head of a major United Nations program on sustainable energy, made similar arguments last week at a UN environmental conference in Rio de Janeiro, advocating the development of conventional and unconventional natural gas resources as a way to reduce deforestation and save millions of lives in the Third World.)                                                                        

(2) Lovelock blasted greens for treating global warming like a religion.“It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion,” Lovelock observed. “I don’t think people have noticed that, but it’s got all the sort of terms that religions use … The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can’t win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air.”

(3) Lovelock mocks the idea modern economies can be powered by wind turbines.As he puts it, “so-called ‘sustainable development’ … is meaningless drivel … We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can’t stand windmills at any price.”

(4) Finally, about claims “the science is settled” on global warming: “One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don’t know it.” 

MSNBC/Toronto Sun/Midknight Review/ The Guardian/ Yahoo News/ Daily UK Express
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End notes:  In a panicked effort  to explain away this report,  folks such as Dan Bloom (his name is not really all that important;  you only need to know  that he is a warmist without any objectivity at all  -  you know,  a typical weather alarmist) , in the story noted below,  gave us "reasons" for ignoring this story: 

Make Note:  whether you accept my review as enough information on Bloom's article or read his comments for yourself,  you will note that nowhere in the actual story is there a claim that MSNBC "mis-reported" anything. The headline is a lie and the "reasoned arguments"  are just plain silly.  -- blog editor. 

How MSNBC's Ian Johnston Mis-Reported the James Lovelock Non-Story That Went Viral

by danbloom / April 25, 2012 / article linked here. 

First,  he notes that Ian Johnston,  at msnbc.com,  is an editor,  not a reporter.  Bloom tells his readership that Johnston even admits that he is an editor,  not a reporter.  Wow.  And Bloom is a "reporter" but not a scientist ??!!

Secondly,  Bloom,  thinking that he is onto something really big,  makes mention of the fact that Johnston has not returned his phone calls or emails which leads this moron to say,  “Stonewalling again?”  as if there was a first time. 

Third,  Bloom  attacks this story because Johnston interviewed the good scientist by phone (since the man lives in Europe) and without benefit of a news conference.  Again,  “wow.”

Bloom continues his idiot’s argument with this mind numbing comment:

“Three: why did this telephone interview take place on that day when in fact
there was NO NEWS about  LOVELOCK or climate change that would warrant such a big news story?”

Understand his argument?  That there was no other warming news on the day the story broke (and you libs think you are smarter than the rest of us !!). 

Finally,  for the sake of this post,  this Blooming Idiot, discounts the story because it qualifies (in his mind) as a PR stunt to sell Dr. Lovelock’s new book.  Never mind the fact that book is not fully written and will not be published until sometime next year.