Peter Jones - April 25, 2012  There is still hope!  James
Lovelock was very pessimistic regarding the ability of human
societies to mitigate the effect of climate change.  Yet other
environmentalist authors, such as Paul Giddings, were more
hopeful, a fact noted in other  ForourGrandchildren comments.
 In the opinion of these other authors, the effects of global
warming could be mitigated given human ingenuity and commitment.
Lovelock now admits he was too alarmist on climate change. He
made this admission with respect to one of his published
comments about the death of billions in the 21st Century, and
the reduction of human kind to “breeding pairs” in the Arctic.
He explained with a twinkle: “I would be a little more cautious
– but then that would have spoilt the book.”  He draws a
distinction between the increase in carbon dioxide and actual
warning of the globe.   Lovelock considers that the effect of
the oceans (that do absorb CO2 and thus mitigate warming) is not
well enough understood and could still