'Global warming? What global warming?' says High Priest of Gaia Religion. - Telegraph.co.uk (blog)

Lovelock: wrong

"Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth", saith the Bible.

So let joy be unconfined that one of the archest of the world's arch Greenies â€" James Lovelock, inventor of the Gaia hypothesis and therefore, more or less, founder of the world's most powerful modern religion â€" has come clean and admitted that he got it wrong in his doomsday predictions about "Climate Change."

Well, come almost clean.

I can't say there has been quite as much wailing and lamentation and as breast-beating as I would have liked. Here's what he has said in in his retraction in an interview with MSNBC.

“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 â€" mine included â€" 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 â€" carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that,” he added.

Presumably, Professor Lovelock will now be donating all his royalties from his earlier alarmist bestsellers to help fund those proper, principled, decent scientists around the world â€" Fred Singer, Richard Lindzen, Bob Carter, Ian Plimer, Tim Ball et al â€" whose careers have been blighted and whose lives have been made misery for having said precisely what Lovelock is now admitting, only much, much earlier. And then, perhaps, using his cachet among his greenie co-religionists to amend for his sins by calling for the abolition of the IPCC.