The Vanishing Face of Gaia
Reference: Lovelock, James, The Vanishing Face of Gaia A Final Warning, Allen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books, London, England.2009, 178 pages.
Basic Information:
Title: The Vanishing Face of Gaia A Final Warning
Author: James Lovelock
Year of publication: London, England in 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Number of pages: 178 pages
About the author:
James Lovelock was born on July 26, 1919 in Letchworth Garden City in the United Kingdom. He graduated as a chemist from Manchester University in 1941 and in 1948 received a Ph.D. degree in medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has been an independent scientist since 1964 and author of more than 200 scientific papers in different disciplines such as Medicine, Biology, Instrument Science and Geophysiology. He is the author of “The GaiaTheory, " which considers the planet Earth as a self-regulated living being. Finally, he received many Honorary Doctorates in sciences from Universities around the world for his leadership to raise awareness related to climate change.
Chapter 1: The journey in Space and Time
The author raised the fact that we have observed for many years important climate changes as a result of our increased pollution and production of carbon dioxide. To address this important problem an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was created. However, even with all the cumulative research data of more than 1,000 panels of scientists, we are still not able to predict with precision, the actual changes in climate!
To support his observation, the author reported data published in Science in 2007 revealing that sea level was rising 1.6 times faster and the temperature 1.3 times faster than the predictions included in the IPCC reports. What is more concerning he said, is that we still don’t know if these changes are reversible. If not, and probably not, a potential impact of sea level rising could be
Basic Information:
Title: The Vanishing Face of Gaia A Final Warning
Author: James Lovelock
Year of publication: London, England in 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Number of pages: 178 pages
About the author:
James Lovelock was born on July 26, 1919 in Letchworth Garden City in the United Kingdom. He graduated as a chemist from Manchester University in 1941 and in 1948 received a Ph.D. degree in medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has been an independent scientist since 1964 and author of more than 200 scientific papers in different disciplines such as Medicine, Biology, Instrument Science and Geophysiology. He is the author of “The GaiaTheory, " which considers the planet Earth as a self-regulated living being. Finally, he received many Honorary Doctorates in sciences from Universities around the world for his leadership to raise awareness related to climate change.
Chapter 1: The journey in Space and Time
The author raised the fact that we have observed for many years important climate changes as a result of our increased pollution and production of carbon dioxide. To address this important problem an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was created. However, even with all the cumulative research data of more than 1,000 panels of scientists, we are still not able to predict with precision, the actual changes in climate!
To support his observation, the author reported data published in Science in 2007 revealing that sea level was rising 1.6 times faster and the temperature 1.3 times faster than the predictions included in the IPCC reports. What is more concerning he said, is that we still don’t know if these changes are reversible. If not, and probably not, a potential impact of sea level rising could be