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THE financial crash may help sales of James Lovelock鈥榮 second volume on Gaia. If it happened to the economy, why not to climate? Both systems are 鈥渃omplex and non-linear and can change suddenly and unexpectedly鈥�, he writes. He lacks confidence in climate models with their smoothly rising curves of global temperature up to 2100, and instead anticipates a sudden flip to a state 5掳C as hot.

Since it is too late to prevent this, we must think about how to adapt and act fast. The best chapters concern survival strategies, such as energy and food options for the UK, which will become a 鈥渓ifeboat鈥� for environmental refugees.

Published simultaneously, , an authorised biography of Lovelock by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin, demonstrates well how Gaia has overcome its main critics to become part of a distinguished historical tradition of serious if controversial science.