By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle. Phoenix will become uninhabi….

I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards..

The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it….

Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia..

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes..

Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades..

NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It woul….

The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living entity cap….

I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so….

The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil..

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive..

Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet, such a book ….

All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are….

This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of rel….

The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans and perfect ball-bea….

The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now..

Only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It arose 2,000 years a….

Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to….

A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time..

Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor..

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty..