James Lovelock Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.”

“The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.”

“The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium.”

“You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.”

“I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.”

“Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant - and 99% of them are - you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if you do.”

“Science always uses metaphor.”

“Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.”

“The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened.”

“Gas is almost a give-away in the U.S. at the moment. They've gone for fracking in a big way. This is what makes me very cross with the greens for trying to knock it... Let's be pragmatic and sensible and get Britain to switch everything to methane. We should be going mad on it.”