Gaia Scientist Lovelock Predicts Planetary Wipeout:
by Jeremy Lovell
LONDON - The earth has a fever that could boost temperatures by 8 degrees Celsius making large parts of the surface uninhabitable and threatening billions of peoples' lives, a controversial climate scientist said on Tuesday.
James Lovelock, who angered climate scientists with his Gaia theory of a living planet and then alienated environmentalists by backing nuclear power, said a traumatized earth might only be able to support less than a tenth of it's 6 billion people.
'We are not all doomed. An awful lot of people will die, but I don't see the species dying out,' he told a news conference. 'A hot earth couldn't support much over 500 million.'"
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