derstood, our own understanding and commitment to the very concept of GAIA as proposed by Margullis & Lovelock remains at the heart of that which [WE] both ascribe to, most particularly in the context of PAST • PRESENT • FUTURE • AS ONE • NOW • in which I referred to Lovelock’s 100th Birthday and and his very adamant proposal that Earth • GAIA will [BE] in[DEED] saved by artificial intelligence, bearing in mind that he has always been an ardent supporter of nature’s own nuclear fusion as the ART of the Possible Solution to the dangers of climate change, which have [NOW] well and truly ARRIVED so to speak or NOT !!!???…
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ndian Ocean ‘Boxing Day’ and 2011 Tōhoku (Japan) events, are of particular note, striking quickly and with little warning (Seneviratne et al. 2012).
Around 6000 BC a devastating tsunami tore down through the North Sea and across the island of Doggerland, wiping out its population • never forgetting that over time here in Britain, sea levels rose and Doggerland became increasingly submerged, eventually becoming cut off from land on both sides and forming an island.
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first book Gaia: a new look at life on earth in 1979; but the scientific community remained highly sceptical. For decades Gaia was ignored, dismissed and even ridiculed as a scientific theory. To this day, evolutionary biologists, in particular, take issue with the notion of a self-regulating planet. John Maynard Smith called it "an evil religion". Jonathon Porritt says Lovelock taught him "the value of cantankerous, obstinate independence, sticking to what you think is right and making those the cornerstones of your existence". Outspoken in support of nuclear power, Lovelock has offered to store a large amount of high level nuclear waste in a concrete box in his garden. On climate change, he believes it's too late for mankind to save the planet. At the start of his Life Scientific, Lovelock says he learnt more working as an apprentice for a photographic firm in south London than he ever did later at university. The best science, he insists, is done with your hands as well as your head. Thanks to Henry Higgins style elocution lessons aged 12, he was able to get a job at the well respected National Institute for Medical Research. Wartime science was all about solving ad -hoc problems and he loved it. A prolific inventor, he made a very early microwave oven to defrost hamsters and invented the Electron Capture Detector - an exquisitely sensitive device for detecting the presence of the tiniest quantities of gases in the atmosphere and led to a global ban on CFCs. Aged 40, Lovelock decided to go it alone and, he insists, the theory for which he is best known, Gaia, simply would not have been possible had he remained working within the scientific establishment. Producer: Anna Buckley.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b01h666h
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Added by Michael Grove at 14:59 on February 10, 2019
ecords the snowline of more than 50 South Island glaciers has revealed continued loss of snow and ice.
Every year, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa), the Victoria University of Wellington and the conservation department gather thousands of aerial photographs of the glaciers to measure the altitude of the snowline and see how much of the previous winter’s snow has remained covering each glacier. That snowline, also known as the equilibrium line altitude (ELA), allows scientists to evaluate the glacier’s health. If the glacier size has decreased, then the line will be higher, because less winter snow remains.
“We were expecting the snowlines to be high because of the warm weather we’ve had and sadly, our instincts were confirmed,” said Dr Andrew Lorrey, a principal scientist at Niwa.New Zealand’s glaciers had lost mass most years over the past decade, said Dr Lauren Vargo from Victoria University.“But what was more striking to me is how much smaller and more skeletal so many of the glaciers are becoming.”
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