cheery lecture coming up tonight

Here’s a taste of the JAMES LOVELOCK WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE:

“Writing in the British newspaper The Independent in January 2006, Lovelock argues that, as a result of global warming, ‘billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable’ by the end of the 21st century. He has been quoted in The Guardian that 80% of humans will perish by 2100 AD, and this climate change will last 100,000 years.

He further predicts, the average temperature in temperate regions will increase by as much as 8°C and by up to 5°C in the tropics, leaving much of the world’s land uninhabitable and unsuitable for farming, with northerly migrations and new cities created in the Arctic. He predicts much of Europe will become uninhabitable having turned to desert and Britain will become Europe’s ‘life-raft’ due to Britain’s stable temperature from being surrounded by the ocean. He suggests that ‘we have to keep in mind the awesome pace of change and realise how little time is left to act, and then each community and nation must find the best use of the resources they have to sustain civilisation for as long as they can’.

He partly retreated from this position in a September 2007 address to the World Nuclear Association’s Annual Symposium, suggesting that climate change would stabilise and prove survivable, and that the Earth itself is in ‘no danger’ because it would stabilise in a new state. Life, however, might be forced to migrate en masse to remain in habitable climes.”