Poor old Lovelock

- is there anybody out there prepared to bet against him - if the earth is going to a dominantly greenhouse state - then most of the planet will be covered with hot steamy clouds ( a venusian climate) - not deserts as James predicts -- that would be a dry, and cold Martian climate ( ie. greenhouse influence free)

'We should be scared stiff'

Renowned scientist James Lovelock thinks mainland Europe will soon be desert - and millions of people will start moving north to Britain. Stuart Jeffries meets him Thursday March 15, 2007The Guardian
If you think Britain is intolerably crowded today, you might well want to brace yourself before reading the next sentence. Because this country is going to become much, much more densely populated over the course of this century as millions of people flee the uninhabitable desert that mainland Europe is doomed to turn into.
Such at least is James Lovelock's fear. The esteemed - if controversial - environmentalist and futurologist (he prefers to be called a planetary physician) also believes that by the middle of this century, the America-sized chunk of floating ice that currently covers the Arctic will melt. As a result, the current habitat of polar bears will eventually be the place where we, or our probably very fed-up descendants, live out their pitiful existences. "Most life will move up to the Arctic basin because only it and a few islands will remain habitable," says Lovelock, who is most famous for coming up with the so-called Gaia hypothesis - the idea that the Earth functions as some kind of living super-organism.