Thanks to Jason, I've just come back from the discussion between James Lovelock and Sir Crispin Tickell at the Southbank Centre where there were some interesting comments from the father of the Gaia Theory on Climate Change and man's relationship to it.
Lovelock opened the talk by raising the complaint that climate scientists, or indeed many scientists, get so carried away in their modelling that they forget the real world....
When I was growing up, my parents frowned quite heavily on too much TV. We didn't even own a colour TV until sometime in the 80s, but I didn't really notice as I allowed my imagination to "see colours" where there weren't any. Although this did make for interesting conversations in the school yard when I was sure that the spaceship in whatever child's cartoon series was popular at the time was red, when really it was blue...
Other than my 30 mins of TV I was allowed to watch upon returning from school, my parents did encourage me to watch educational programs which I can honestly say did make a positive impact and was almost as exciting to a ten year old boy as epic space battles. One of the shows we would watch religiously was the CBC's "The Nature of Things", a series exploring science and later the environment, which was presented by David Suzuki, a man whom I admire very much and certainly helped shape my life. I think it was probably his unknowing influence together with that of my sister that originally shaped my desire to be a biologist those so many years ago.
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