Hi Judith
You’ve missed out another important part of the MSNBC interview with Lovelock:
He [Lovelock] said human-caused carbon dioxide emissions were driving an increase in the global temperature, but added that the effect of the oceans was not well enough understood and could have a key role.
“It (the sea) could make all the difference between a hot age and an ice age,” he said.
He said he still thought that climate change was happening, but that its effects would be felt farther in the future than he previously thought.
“We will have global warming, but it’s been deferred a bit,” Lovelock said.
Various blogs, on both sides of the debate, are trying to spin this to claim that Lovelock is saying that anthropogenic global warming has gone away. He is clearly not saying that!
He used to say that the IPCC was “too conservative” but doesn’t seem to think that any longer. However, I don’t think his “half-way to frying” quote is based on IPCC.
Cheers
Richard