ABSTRACT
There is no shortage of predictions for the future of the planet and, more specifically, the UK, for the likely outcomes under a range of possible climate change scenarios. At the gloomiest end of the spectrum sits James Lovelock, the co-progenitor of the Gaia hypothesis, who says:
Although we have much to learn, it does appear probable that in a few years, when the carbon-dioxide abundance passes 500ppm, we will enter the zone where temperatures will rise to a new steady state, perhaps six to eight degrees hotter than now.2
