“Gaia” Guru Admits Global Warming Alarmism Is Wrong
By David J. Theroux • Monday May 7, 2012 3:39 PM PDT • 6 Comments
James Delingpole reports in the Telegraph of London that James Lovelock, the “greenest” of the “greens,” now admits that the doomsaying over global warming is wrong.
[O]ne of the archest of the world’s arch Greenies – James Lovelock, inventor of the Gaia hypothesis and therefore, more or less, founder of the world’s most powerful modern religion – has come clean and admitted that he got it wrong in his doomsday predictions about “Climate Change.”
In 2007, Time magazine named Lovelock as one its thirteen “Heroes of the Environment” for conceiving of the earth as the single organism “Gaia.”
James Lovelock, the maverick scientist who became a guru to the environmental movement with his “Gaia” theory of the Earth as a single organism, has admitted to being “alarmist” about climate change and says other environmental commentators, such as Al Gore, were too. . . .
“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.
Belief in global warming catastrophe has been a major tenet of environmentalism as secular religion, but now with the most prominent “green” crusader having broken ranks with the climate alarmists, might there be hope that reason and common sense will prevail? Please see the following articles by our Senior Fellow Robert H. Nelson, author of the Independent Institute’s award-winning book, The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion vs. Environmental Religion in Contemporary America:
“Environmentalism has become a religion” (McClatchy Newspapers)
“Environmentalism: The New Religion Freely Taught In Schools” (Forbes)
“Wasteful U.S. public-land policy must change” (Arizona Republic)
“Free the American West: Get the federal government off public lands that are of no national importance” (Los Angeles Times)
Tags: Disaster Management, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Land use, Progressivism, Regulation, Religion, Science, Socialism 
Yeah! Finally some common sense.
Danny Trussell | May 7, 2012 | Reply
Everyone looking for a religion to give their lives meaning.
Rather look into my fellow man for:
Inspiration – holy sheep dip Batman, if I can’t be inspired to do right by all the wrong around me, what’s the point?
Courage – the fact I can get killed for preaching world peace, goodwill towards men, and somehow getting more than a few to follow me means I either have to live life on my knees, or on my feet.
Faith – I have plenty of faith, even though I’m an atheist. I have faith that my fellow man can be brilliant, and at times, diabolical, yet I know controlling them will only make the problem worse. So, I have faith in my species to find it’s way, I just hope it happens before it’s too late.
Evald | May 7, 2012 | Reply
Evald, Environmentalism arose from the secularization of some Christian denominations, as Robert Nelson shows in his book, The New Holy Wars. Moreover, I would suggest that atheism (or naturalism) is a dead end. Indeed, such a view necessarily reduces to a materialistic determinism that denies free will, reason, science, objective truth and morality, individual agency, and humanity itself.
Here is a sampling of key books in this regard:
Warrant and Proper Function, by Alvin Plantinga (Oxford University Press)
Naturalism, by Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro (Eerdmans)
Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism, by Alvin Plantinga (Oxford University Press)
Naturalism: A Critical Analysis, edited by William Lane Craig and J.P. Moreland (Routledge)
C.S. Lewis’s Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason, by Victor Reppert (IVP Press)
Here also are sample articles:
“The Argument from Reason,” by Victor Reppert
“Naturalism Defeated,” by Alvin Plantinga
“Religion and Science,” by Alvin Plantinga
“The Ultimate Question of Origins: God and the Beginning of the Universe,” by William Lane Craig
“Darwin, Mind and Meaning,” by Alvin Plantinga
“Economic Science and the Poverty of Naturalism: C. S. Lewis’s ‘Argument from Reason’,” by David J. Theroux
“Introduction: The Resurrection of Theism,” by William Lane Craig
“Naturalism and Libertarian Agency,” by Stewart Goetz
“Theism, Atheism, and Rationality,” by Alvin Plantinga
David Theroux | May 7, 2012 | Reply
If one believes in God you only have to explain the existence of evil and suffering. If one doesn’t believe in God you have to explain the existence of everything else.
Grant | May 7, 2012 | Reply
Ooo.. so I deny free will, reason, science, objective truth and morality, individual agency, and humanity itself. Thank you Mr. Theroux for opening my eyes! I didn’t even know what a monster I am.
I am an atheist in fifth generation ( sounds strange for American ears, I know) and read the bible first time when I was 14 y.o. , just of curiosity. I was shocked. I never read such a disgusting, cruel, immoral, and stupid book before. That god of old Testament is a maniac, sadist, and psychopath ( or rather a product of ill imagination of some maniacs, sadists, and psychopaths.) And the dirty hippie from Nazareth is not much better.
Religion, in the best case is just a useless hypothesis that can’t explain nothing. A dog’s fifth leg. And in the worst a device for keeping sheeple in line. To keep them in fear before an imaginary lord when real lords are looking aside.
Religion is the very opposition of morality, because morality based on a fear of punishment is not morality at all.
Alexandra K. | May 8, 2012 | Reply
Alexandra K.s post reminds me of the line from “A Fish Called Wanda” in which “Otto” comments that, “Apes don’t read philosophy,” [or words to that effect] and “Wanda” replies, “Yes they do, Otto, they just don’t understand it!” I wouldn’t want to compare Ms K to the apes (from whom she no doubt feels she is descended) for several reasons, but I will suggest that her bigotry prevents her from being honest enough to actually study the Bible’s various books and read the works of great Christian minds like C.S. Lewis.
The vicious “dirty hippie” comment demonstrates the kind of vitriolic hatred of mankind which is, sadly, typical of the militant atheists. This world would be better off with a lot more such “dirty hippies” and a lot fewer such atheists.
Here are a few quotes on the topic; let the reader decide with whom he agrees:
“Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source — from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth. They are not annexed to us by parchments and seals. They are created In us by the decrees of Providence, which establish the laws of our nature. They are born with us; exist with us; and cannot be taken from us by any human power, without taking our lives.” ~ John Dickinson
“Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.” ~ Eric Hoffer
“Secular nations have one thing in common — mass graves. And the reason is that they believe the government is the final arbiter of right and wrong and good and evil.” ~ Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore
“Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.” ~ William Penn
“Let us suppose that there were no God: even so, I should prefer the ‘folly’ of Christianity to the ‘wisdom’ of atheism.” ~ Kaptain Kanada
“God gave us that most precious of all gifts, free will. The various forces and institutions of the State constantly try to deny us this ‘unalienable’ right.” ~ Kaptain Kanada
“What is important… is the totalitarian claim of the State on the individual which forces him to renounce his moral and religious obligations to God.” ~ Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg, leader of the conspirators who plotted to kill Hitler and overthrow the Nazi government.
“The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.” ~ H.G. Wells
“We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than about peace, more about killing than we know about living.” ~ General Omar Bradley
“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you’re looking down, you can’t see something that’s above you.” – C.S. Lewis
“The Citizen is obliged in conscience not to follow the directives of Civil Authorities, when they are contrary to the demands of the moral order, to the fundamental rights of persons, or the teachings of the Gospel. Refusing obedience to civil authorities when their demands are contrary to those of an upright conscience, finds its justification in the distinction between serving God and serving the political community…” ~ The Catechism of the Catholic Church, #2242
“...total freedom to make what laws it pleases, superiority to law because it is the source of law, is the characteristic of every state; of democratic states no less than of monarchical.” ~ C.S. Lewis
“We live in a secularized world of nation states in which traditional religion, especially Christianity, is unwelcome. Rooted in the “Enlightenment,” this view supports a secularized and authoritarian public square enforced by government and that progress requires forcing religion ever backward into remote corners of society. In short, America has become a secular theocracy with a civic religion of national politics (nationalism) occupying the public realm in which government has replaced God.” ~ David J. Theroux
And now, equal time for atheists:
“Thousands of natural catastrophes and epidemics are preferable to the slightest notion of God.” ~ Vladimir Lenin
“For man is the supreme being. It is thus vain to speak of God, creation, etc.” ~ Karl Marx
“Fundamental, Bible believing people do not have the right to indoctrinate their children in their religious beliefs, because we, the State, are preparing them for the year 2000, when America will be part of a one-world global society and their children will not fit in.” ~ Peter Hoagland, Nebraska State Senator and Humanist, 1983
Again, let the reader choose with whom he agrees...
“A man is known by the company he keeps.” ~ Anonymous
Kaptain Kanada | May 8, 2012 | Reply