\n\n[G]lobal warming has not occurred as he had\u00c2\u00a0expected.
\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThe problem is we don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books \u00e2\u0080\u0093 mine included \u00e2\u0080\u0093 because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t happened,\u00e2\u0080\u009d Lovelock said.
\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThe climate is doing its usual tricks. There\u00e2\u0080\u0099s nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now,\u00e2\u0080\u009d he said.
\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThe world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time\u00e2\u0080\u00a6 it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising -- carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that,\u00e2\u0080\u009d he added.
\nHe pointed to Gore\u00e2\u0080\u0099s \u00e2\u0080\u009cAn Inconvenient Truth\u00e2\u0080\u009d and Tim Flannery\u00e2\u0080\u0099s \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Weather Makers\u00e2\u0080\u009d as other examples of \u00e2\u0080\u009calarmist\u00e2\u0080\u009d forecasts of the future.
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Global warming? Sure. Anthropogenic? To some extent. Catastrophic? No. Via World News - 'Gaia' scientist James Lovelock: I was 'alarmist' about climate change.
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