Gaia Scientist Lovelock: ‘I was WRONG and alarmist on climate’
24th April 2012
Environmental luminary Dr James Lovelock says he now regrets being “alarmist” about climate predictions.
Speaking to MSNBC, Lovelock admitted spicing up his books with headline-catching doomsday predictions.
In 2006 Dr Lovelock predicted the Earth “would catch a morbid fever” that would destroy six billion people – “the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable,” he predicted. In 2009, he was telling the Guardian that “we may face planet-wide devastation worse even than unrestricted nuclear war between superpowers”.
“I made a mistake,” the 92-year-old scientist now says.