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INFLUENTIAL FATHER OF ‘GAIA THEORY’ ENDORSES FRACKING AFTER HIS ENERGY COSTS SKYROCKET IN THE U.K.

Posted on June 16, 2012 at 11:35am by Erica Ritz

James Lovelock admits some of the conclusions he made in this book about the effects of global warming went too far.

James Lovelock, often known as the father of Gaia theory, or the “highly influential hypothesis” that Earth is a self-regulating, single organism, has radically altered his environmentalist beliefs after being forced to move because of skyrocketing energy costs.

In a profile with the U.K.’s Guardian, Mother Earth’s former advocate is introduced:

Three years ago, he received a heating bill for the winter [totaling] £6,000. His [old] age means he has to have the heating on full in his poorly insulated home and, with his disabled son, Tom, living in a house next door, his outgoings on fuel rocketed… The experience altered his attitude to the politics and economics of energy… [He] is now coming out in favour of “fracking”, the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from the ground… “Gas is almost a give-away in the US at the moment. They’ve gone for fracking in a big way. Let’s be pragmatic and sensible and get Britain to switch everything to methane. We should be going mad on it.”
Not only that, Lovelock is also saying he is no longer concerned about rising sea levels, and that windmills are both “ugly and useless.”

Quite a change from the man who, in 2006, wrote an influential book called “The Revenge of Gaia,” saying that by the end of the century “billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.”

Having admitted that he was probably “extrapolating too far,“ Lovelock also took time to criticize the ”green” movement, which has been highly influenced by his ideas:

“It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don’t think people have noticed that, but it’s got all the sort of terms that religions use. The greens use guilt. You can’t win people round by saying they are guilty for putting CO2 in the air.”
Here is a dramatic BBC clip of Lovelock describing his “Gaia” theory, and what will likely happen to the planet:

www.youtube.com . . .

In addition to fracking, the former alarmist now also embraces nuclear power in the strongest of terms.

A blogger for the U.K.’s Telegraph embraces the change, but asks:

Could he really not see where green energy policies (inspired partly by his doomsday predictions in books like The Revenge of Gaia) were leading until he was socked with his first whacking great £6,000 heating bill? If so, then it strikes me as both a woeful failure of imagination and a lack of clear thinking.

High energy bills, after all, are no accident. They are result of a very deliberate strategy by environmental pressure groups to make energy bills more expensive in order to force everyone to reduce their energy usage. Of course, the people this hits hardest are the ones for whom reducing energy usage is not really a viable option: the old and inform, many of whom have been driven into “fuel poverty” by the greens’ well-meaning attempts to save the world from the illusory threat of ManBearPig.

“Better late than never, eh?” he concludes, declaring his favorite line of the article to be: “I’m neither strongly left nor right, but I detest the Liberal Democrats.”



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Not only that, Lovelock is also saying he is no longer concerned about rising sea levels, and that windmills are both “ugly and useless.”

He's right about windmills. All those off the coast of England use more power than they produce, due to the fact they have to be electrically heated in winter to keep them from freezing up.

Global warming will the euro and eu to fail!

Three years ago, he received a heating bill for the winter [totaling] £6,000.

Perhaps he should have invested the money he made off gullible people more...wisely.

His old age means he has to have the heating on full in his poorly insulated home

*lol* The revenge of Gaia, eh Doc..

AHomo and Lie-lie-42 will be devastated.

We won't be having fracking in Britain for a long time. The one time we tried it it caused earthquakes. Fucking earthquakes in Britain! We have enough problems without deliberately causing shit like that to happen.


That is where America has an advantage. It's a fucking great big country compared to us. You can have quake causing fracking in unpopulated areas. It might piss of the animal life but that's it; apart from polluting the water supply, but that can always be cleaned. Britain on the other hand is so small, you set off quakes and you're affecting towns in all directions; you can't miss.

mikgof wrote:

We won't be having fracking in Britain for a long time. The one time we tried it it caused earthquakes. Fucking earthquakes in Britain! We have enough problems without deliberately causing shit like that to happen.


That is where America has an advantage. It's a fucking great big country compared to us. You can have quake causing fracking in unpopulated areas. It might piss of the animal life but that's it; apart from polluting the water supply, but that can always be cleaned. Britain on the other hand is so small, you set off quakes and you're affecting towns in all directions; you can't miss.

Actually, they have the green light to go ahead near ~Lancashire, or that is unless the final say...says not.

www.independent.co.uk . . .

~200 trillion cubic estimate would go along way to your energy needs..

Earthquakes...in my UK...without fracking...it's more likely than you think...

www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk . . .


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