"Few seem to realise that the present IPCC models predict almost
unanimously that by 2040 the average summer in Europe will be as hot as the
summer of 2003 when over 30,000 died from heat. By then we may cool
ourselves with air conditioning and learn to live in a climate no worse
than that of Baghdad now. But without extensive irrigation the plants will
die and both farming and natural ecosystems will be replaced by scrub and
desert. What will there be to eat? The same dire changes will affect the
rest of the world and I can envisage Americans migrating into Canada and
the Chinese into Siberia but there may be little food for any of them."
--Dr James Lovelock's lecture to the Royal Society, 29 Oct. '07
"We underestimated the risks ... we underestimated the damage associated
with temperature increases ... and we underestimated the probabilities of
temperature increases." -- Sir Nicholas Stern, author of "The Stern
Report," April 17, 2008
"Few seem to realise that the present IPCC models predict almost unanimously that by 2040 the average summer in Europe will be as hot as the summer of 2003 when over 30,000 died from heat. By then we may cool ourselves with air conditioning and learn to live in a climate no worse than that of Baghdad now. But without extensive irrigation the plants will die and both farming and natural ecosystems will be replaced by scrub and desert. What will there be to eat? The same dire changes will affect the rest of the world and I can envisage Americans migrating into Canada and the Chinese into Siberia but there may be little food for any of them." --Dr James Lovelock's lecture to the Royal Society, 29 Oct. '07
"We underestimated the risks ... we underestimated the damage associated with temperature increases ... and we underestimated the probabilities of temperature increases." -- Sir Nicholas Stern, author of "The Stern Report," April 17, 2008