James Lovelock, Father of Gaia Theory, Endorses Natural Gas Fracking?

Lovelock knows, and has written in his books, that Western civilisation as it is now cannot survive without fossil fuels. He is saying that since we cannot get off fossil fuels at the moment, we should use the ones that cause least damage to the climate.

On renewables:

We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can’t stand windmills at any price. Hydro, biomass, solar, etc, have all got great promise, but they’re not available tomorrow, or even in 10 years.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):

I think the most outrageous example of climate scientists getting it wrong and not admitting it was the 2007 IPPC report. They happily accepted the Nobel prize, but their sea-level rise estimates … were 100% wrong. They didn’t really answer this other than say it’s a very complicated business and we’ve only just started. The IPCC is too politicised and too internalised. Whenever the UN puts its finger in it seems to become a mess.

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Renewables are fairly useless unless you're talking about a small number of people with a large natural resource, such as sunshine in a desert (for solar power) or a large river (for hydro power). They can't possibly replace fossil fuels as the world's main energy supply.