Burning heretics, like burning coal, is bad for the environment

Ever hear of James Lovelock? He's known as the "father of global warming." More accurately, he's the orignator of the Gaia hypothesis- the notion that Planet Earth is best thought of as a living organism, of which plants and animals and even people are organs and stuff.

He hasn't recanted his concern about the environment. He still thinks anthropogenic global warmning is a major problem. But he also thinks that the "green" movement has changed from a movement based on science into a religion; that modern economies simply can't be powered by wind turbines and the like; that natural gas is our best bet to replace coal; and that the past alarmism of environmental activists about global warming- including Al Gore's and even his own- was hysterical.

Is the science, as we keep hearing from the Left, "settled?" Lovelock says this:

One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don’t know it.

While I disagree with the modernism of his view of truth, I think he accurately describes the scientific method. Which is kind of a problem for the Al Gores of this world when they claim that they're the ones who speak for "science."

HT: Drudge