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To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (510)6/23/2012 11:32:15 AM
From: joseffy  Respond to of 1400
 
He responds to attacks on his revised views by noting that, unlike many climate scientists who fear a loss of government funding if they admit error, as a freelance scientist, he’s never been afraid to revise his theories in the face of new evidence. Indeed, that’s how science advances.



To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (510)6/23/2012 11:39:46 AM
From: joseffy  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1400
 
“It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion,” Lovelock observed. “I don’t think people have noticed that, but it’s got all the sort of terms that religions use … The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can’t win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air.”



To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (510)6/23/2012 11:40:10 AM
From: joseffy  Respond to of 1400
 
Finally, about claims “the science is settled” on global warming: “One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don’t know it.”