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Has it come to this?

by Bryan Walker March 30, 2009

James Lovelock is renowned for his Gaia theory: using metaphor to illuminate science, he has argued that the earth is a living planet, a self-regulating system made up of organisms, surface rocks, the ocean and the atmosphere interacting to provide conditions favourable for life. Three years ago, in The Revenge of Gaia, he declared that [...]

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Immigrant song

by Gareth March 2, 2009

According to the Washington Post, “Climate fears are driving ‘ecomigration’ around the globe” [reg req'd, full text at Climate Ark, extracts at the ODT], and the example the paper chose was NASA computer expert Adam Fier and his family, who have moved to New Zealand: …a place they had never visited or seen before, and [...]

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Someone took the words away

by Gareth February 12, 2009

Done and dusted. My submission to the Emissions Trading Scheme Review has been safely committed to the tender mercies of NZ Post. It’s a bit long to be posted in full — it’s over 3,500 words (there’s a PDF of the full document here), but I will run through the main recommendations I make. Because [...]

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The boatman’s call

by Gareth February 9, 2009

The Sunday Times has begun publishing a series of excerpts from James Lovelock’s new book, The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning, due out at the end of this month. It makes bleak reading for climate optimists: So are all our efforts to become carbon neutral, to put on sandals and a hair shirt [...]

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Barabajagal (Lovelock is hot)

by Gareth September 4, 2008

Morning Report is full of surprises. Last week it was Sean Plunket extemporising a ruthless skewering of Winston Peters, this week it’s Sean completely missing the point in an interview with James Lovelock (stream, podcast – 8:20am). The programme apparently noticed that Lovelock doesn’t think much of emissions trading as an answer to climate change, [...]

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