Lovelock not a visionary – just a NIMBY.

When I read James Lovelock writing:

“I bow my head in shame at the thought that our original good intentions should have been so misunderstood and misapplied. We never intended a fundamentalist Green movement that rejected all energy sources other than renewable, nor did we expect the Greens to cast aside our priceless ecological heritage…” (link)

my initial thought was “too little too late”. The man is an idiot, anyone with any intelligence looking at wind should have known that this huge industrial business had only one philosophy: “destroy your ecology to save the planet (also known as: make us loads of money)”.
The big difference between this load of lying cheating money-grabbing developers and every other run of the mill lying cheating money-grabbing developer which the greens so strongly opposed … was that the wind developers (superficially) suited the world view of Greens like Lovelock. And Greens don’t look at any issue except superficially until, like Lovelock, the reality of the windmills looming over their homes makes them look just a bit deeper … and suddenly they change their mind.
But the irony is that Lovelock is the master of skin-deep philosophy! Gaia is the “theory” that a minuscule skin deep layer of living matter on earth makes the whole planet “alive”.
If I sound particularly cynical, it’s because even in the early naughties when I was a member of the Green party and even on the executive, I couldn’t believe how little any of them knew about wind energy and clearly Lovelock was one of these naive idiots. Most literally thought a few house sized windmills so small you would need signs to tell everyone they were there … would replace the power stations. The reality, is that it “sounded a good idea” … and that was enough for them.
Which reminds me. I’ve not noticed any sceptics highlighting the evidence that Bacteria cause rain This is important because the lack of enough organic agents in the clouds to trigger rain was perhaps the sole remaining argument against cosmic ray induced climate feedback. Now it has been shown that rain is (relatively) heavily polluted by organic materials apparently as part of a bacterial mechanism to aid their dispersal by promoting rain … it’s the final nail in the coffin of the denialists of solar climate impacts. (But it hardly matters as it was already over)
So what does matter?
Having spent some time away from global warming, I was genuinely surprised this morning to read an article where someone still talked about it as “true”. Not till afterwards did I realise that “it’s just not done” any longer to be madly keen on global warming. It is the genuinely mad, the religiously bigoted and/or the scientifically illiterate who “believe” in global warming – not sensible people. No, sensible people now avoid the subject … because it now attracts the lunatics bores of the party who’ll argue anything to death. Only these people still care about it. It’s frankly embarrassing to see people on both sides getting so het up. Get a life!
The reality is that most people now want to “save the world” but are de facto in the sceptic camp … CO2 does cause warming … but its effects do not warrant any more increase in my fuel bills. So, why have argument when we all agree? As a political movement “global warming” is dead … with the proviso that just as there will always be train spotters there will always be people who also believe in global warming – but they will grow up!
But what does still matter is the way that such an outlandish philosophy took hold of academia and UK politics and the corruption, deceit, lies and a cauldron of other anti-democratic activities were mixed together for this poisonous propaganda.
Why it does matter is because it shows that UK politics and very particularly Scottish politics  (and in that regard I include politicians, media commentators and academic “experts”) was wholly and completely deluded and viciously attacked anyone who dared to question them. And it shows that when they are so completely deluded – they allow nothing to stop them. Not science, not the facts. The voice of reason is very easily squashed by the relentless and ruthless dictate of the BBC and its puppets in government (and I mean it that way). It really was like living in a Nazi state … thank goodness, it was something quite benign – if you call the destruction of UK industry benign – but it hardly matches concentration camps. But what if next time it does involve concentration camps? What this episode shows is that nothing will stop them! It really is very very worrying that we are controlled by a single group that can be so deluded.
Indeed, Neil Craig in his question “can you name a single scientist who is not government funded who believes in global warming” …  has hit the nail on the head. Not that government funding is the cause … instead government funding, or more accurately “civil servants” were the drivers of what can only be described as a bizarre religion. I’m reminded of mithraism in the Roman empire … a religion that solidiers seemed to have particularly liked. Likewise, the religion of “global warming” was one that somehow atuned to the civil service mentality.
And that is by far the biggest lesson we have to learn from this debacle. This was a “state-funded” religion … in the sense of a religion particularly endorsed by those who take their earning from the state. And the fact it was so dominant in the UK, more so in Europe and particularly in Scotland, shows the dead-hand of the state funded mentality: I haven’t checked, but it is almost certain that economic performance is inversely proportional to a country’s enthusiasm for the global warming religion … or perhaps we should admit it … the anti-consumerist religion … the anti-profit, anti-industry religion.
The Most Chilling words of Lovelock
Of all that Lovelock wrote, the most chilling is contained in these words:

“that our original good intentions…”

for in these words, he makes it clear, that this was not a movement responding to something. Lovelock’s green movement was not acting purely in response to a need. Instead it was much much more. It had an aim, an intention that went far beyond the particularly response to any immediate concern. The reality appears to be that “Global warming” was just a convenient means to an end – a convenient means that people like Lovelock never seriously questionned because it justified their politics. And let’s not forget that Lovelock’s politics justified the chilling echo of the Nazi state: those calling for concentration camps for sceptics. It justified the wholesale lies and deceit that hid the destruction of wildlife and natural landscape to “save the planet” aka line the pockets of wind developers.
So, yes, isn’t it good that Lovelock has finally seen the light … it only took 16 years of no warming!!!
I think I might have had more respect for this individual if he wasn’t just another NIMBY here today-gone when it’s a windmill in my backyard … live in the countryside … consuming a lot more energy travelling anywhere, using all the convenience of the modern manufacturing world … whilst constantly sticking the knife in … to those who made that world happen.
I might have respected him more if he’d stuck to his guns and said: “despite the fact my backyard is going to get these birdkilling monsters … I still believe in them”. He might then have had some credibility as a “visionary” … because perhaps in 100 years or more, we may need to kill birds to get power this way.
But now all he appears to be is another behind the times – do what I tell you not what I do – Green (as in Naive) NIMBY.
Addendum
Strangely this article from new Scientist (a notoriously alarmist & deceptive in its alarmism rag) more or less backs me up:

• Kyoto is effectively dead … but …
• All that this green debacle  has done is to INCREASE fossil fuel use as UK industry has been pushed abroad.

Let’s reiterate that. If it wasn’t for Kyoto something like 10% of our fossil fuel use (which more or less equates to economic output) would now be located in the UK. The civil-service & BBC hatred of the UK has caused at least 10% of industry (25% by other figures) to move abroad.