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It’s a miraculous era. Rahm Emanuel acknowledged that men can’t turn into women. Bill Gates is off the global warming doomsday express.
It’s not as if he’s actually admitting it’s all nonsense, but the former Microsoft honcho starts out by rejecting the doomsday scenarios.
There’s a doomsday view of climate change that goes like this:
In a few decades, cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization. The evidence is all around us—just look at all the heat waves and storms caused by rising global temperatures. Nothing matters more than limiting the rise in temperature.
Fortunately for all of us, this view is wrong. Although climate change will have serious consequences—particularly for people in the poorest countries—it will not lead to humanity’s demise. People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future. Emissions projections have gone down, and with the right policies and investments, innovation will allow us to drive emissions down much further.
This doesn’t sound like such a big deal, but otherwise liberals in good standing were denounced as oil company shills for rejecting the catastrophic view of global warming.
Bjørn Lomborg can hardly speak to any audience other than the conservative ones because even though he’s a scientist who believes in global warming… he doesn’t believe it’s catastrophic. There are entire sites dedicated to destroying Lomborg and the media rarely speaks about him without a sneer or claims that he really works for the evil fossil fuels people.
So what Bill Gates is saying is big in its own way. It may not sound that way, but it’s heresy to a cult that built its entire ideological infrastructure around an imminent armageddon that has to be stopped no matter how many lives those efforts destroy because the alternative is the mass extinction of mankind.
Gates, a major donor and funder of climate causes, just shrugged all that off.
Unfortunately, the doomsday outlook is causing much of the climate community to focus too much on near-term emissions goals, and it’s diverting resources from the most effective things we should be doing to improve life in a warming world.
It’s not too late to adopt a different view and adjust our strategies for dealing with climate change. Next month’s global climate summit in Brazil, known as COP30, is an excellent place to begin, especially because the summit’s Brazilian leadership is putting climate adaptation and human development high on the agenda.
Gates, in short, is going Lomborg and that’s no coincidence.
“I think it’s great. I think it’s also brave,” political scientist Bjorn Lomborg said of Gates’ essay. Lomborg is president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and is well-known for his contrarian stance that addressing climate change is less important than other threats humanity faces.
“It’s just not what’s going to matter most to the world’s poor,” Lomborg told Newsweek. The Gates essay hews closely to Lomborg’s views, and Lomborg added that the Gates Foundation has funded some of the Copenhagen Consensus Center’s work.
The core Gates argument is that his foundation’s work on fighting poverty and disease in the third world should be a bigger priority than paying windmills in Montana not to spin and other climate offset nonsense that is actually at the center of the climate fraud. Gates by now ought to know better than anyone that most of zero emissions is a series of scams and that if anyone involved really wanted lower emissions, they’d go nuclear (which Gates has proposed.)
The Gates conclusion is the thing to do is keep growing and building up technology and along the way we’ll make life better for most people and solve whatever climate problems there are. It’s a much more cheerful worldview than the one that convinces Gen Z not to have kids and to turn into obnoxious trolls screaming “how dare you” and vandalizing art.
From the standpoint of improving lives, using more energy is a good thing, because it’s so closely correlated with economic growth. This chart shows countries’ energy use and their income. More energy use is a key part of prosperity.
Unfortunately, in this case, what’s good for prosperity is bad for the environment. Although wind and solar have gotten cheaper and better, we don’t yet have all the tools we need to meet the growing demand for energy without increasing carbon emissions.
But we will have the tools we need if we focus on innovation. With the right investments and policies in place, over the next ten years we will have new affordable zero-carbon technologies ready to roll out at scale. Add in the impact of the tools we already have, and by the middle of this century emissions will be lower and the gap between poor countries and rich countries will be greatly reduced.
I don’t agree with Bill Gates on the big picture, but it’s climate liberalism over climate socialism, which is already an improvement, and it breaks the political embargo on questioning the myth of climate apocalypse.
Gates is proposing a more feel-good climate approach and that makes for better political opponents than the vandals and nutters of the climate cult
Billdo Gates is still alive and squawking?
I knew a hot Indonesian chick back in the day who ran into him in Seattle. She said he was a dick. She asked to meet him and he spurned her……her, a hottie way out of his league.
He just needs to STFU. He’s as irrelevant as Ballsack Hasbeen Obama.
He’s a billionaire who got rich serving society, increasing the size of the economic pie. Inform us what you have done for society that remotely compares. We’ll wait.
Gates is mature enough to admit he has changed his position. Bjorn Lomborg concedes climate change is a problem BUT opines the cost of dealing with it is not worth the benefits.
I called your comments “juvenile” but that would be insulting to juveniles.
Billdo cheats on his taxes and hasn’t contributed ANY of his ill gotten wealth to the Seattle Area. UNLIKE YOU I used to live there and know.
I’m not a billionaire so how much money do you expect the government to suck from me.? All of it?
The only change in Gates’s position is from bent over doggy style to on his knees begging for dick.
Global climate warming change is the dumbest hoax of all time, as President Trump noted.
How many walls do you walk into every day? Moron.
Calling you puerile would be insulting to pre-pubescent retards. I bet you adore Bareback Hasbeen Obangi.
This is going to be fun and….. easy! Thanks.
I didn’t ask how much you pay in taxes. I asked what you have done for society that remotely compares to what Gates has done. Your failure to address the question actually answers it. Do you claim to be a “wage slave?” Any criminal record you’d like to share with readers? Mr. Gates has made it easy to research others online! Thanks, Bill.
Has the Gates Foundation contributed money to Seattle Public Schools? (Silence.) Use Mr. Gates’ software for searching to find the answer.
Did Microsoft create tons of good paying jobs in Seattle? (Silence.) What jobs did you create while there? Create any work for lawyers?
If Trump said it, then it has to be true. “‘Tariff’ is one of the most beautiful words in the dictionary.” Trump said “I had no inflation, virtually no inflation.” Is that true? Trump said we had, and I quote. “the highest inflation ever” under President Biden. Was that true? You can use Mr. Gates’ software to get a list of Trump’s demonstrable lies. Share your favorite with us after doing the research.
I’ve been happily married for almost half a century. How about you? What did you call your ex-wife in the comment section?
I voted for Trump because he was better than the alternative. (How many Republicans will be voting for Cuomo in NYC?!) Recognizing that “corporations don’t pay taxes; people do,” I supported Trump’s lowering of the corporate tax rates. Trump’s the guy who called Jerome Powell, the Fed Chairman Trump chose, “numbskull,” “knucklehead,” “moron,” and “fool.” Did you get a participation medal from the Trump School of Immature Name-calling?
Talk about easy and sleazy. You’re a semi human punching bag posing as a human being. In other words, a typical leftist.
Billdo Gates is a PROVED parasite on society. Unlike him, I spent my entire career WORKING for society. That’s what I contributed, you left-wing bitch.
Name ONE lie President Trump has ever uttered. You Can’t, you prototypical butt sniffer. As if he’s a Lyin’ Joke Bidumb or Bareback Hasbeen Osama.
Your hero, Billdo Gates, lives in MEDINA WA, not Seattle, and never contributed a cent to Seattle. Again. I lived there and you never have so you don’t know shit about that city. You’re a derelict piece of shit who doesn’t pay your own way and never has. MEDINA. Where Mad Mohammad, the supposed founder of the cult of islam, is from. Some heritage. for Billdo, your zero hero Only a leftist or islamopithecince scumbag could approve.
President Trump’s tariffs have earned the US TRILLIONS of dallars, butt munch. How much did Bareback Hasbeen Osama or Butt Cancer Joe earn?????”?
Yo’re married? What is your butt buddy hubby’s name? Sheila or Bro?
Jerome Powell is a stupid, anti American piece of shit. Exactly your type of gay guy.
Climate change depends on the season. In the summer it gets hot, and in the winter it gets cold.
Destroing the US economy will not change the seasons, but it will benefit China.
Well Bill I always knew it was a scam and climate communism, but you have pushed up till now. I’m guessing it gets in the way of a new scam you have dreamed up.
yes, no doubt. i get so tired of the “do good” facade. He seems to make money for himself not the good of others but always dresses it up that way. He’s not the only one.
How about a plan to block ultra wealthy oligarchs like Gates from forcing their weirdo ideas on us normal people ?
It’s called two- faced
Now that Bill Gates has stepped back from the apocalyptic global warming ledge, I wonder if “woke” Democ-rats still intend to block the sun. Just like with social distancing, Covid masks and never-ending booster shots, “woke” Democ-rats say that the “science” requires them to block the rays of the sun in order to save the world from global warming. Query: Who or what will save the world from “woke” Democ-rats?
Bill Gates solution to everything is to give him more money. All of the insufferable morons who lectured me on global warming for the past 30 years will now just stop talking about it, similar to all of the insufferable assholes who told me to wear a mask and get the clot shots.
What? The told you to wear a mask to stop the spread of a contagious, deadly disease? Those assholes.
mickorn next time you go camping don’t bring any bug spray. Just put a chain link fence around yourself, the family- no top needed. No tent. Sleep totally nude. Won’t have any problems with the insects. Mosquitos can’t get through a chain link fence. C’mon man I know you are one of my sheep that wore a mask. I reached across the aisle and consulted with genius physicist and climate expert Al Gore. He has billions so you know there is no angle.
Your buddy
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(Who sometimes likes to take a piss, since his followers are so incredibly dumb, and he just can’t help himself with a little cruel humor as entertainment.)
The moderna vaccine is reported to effect the hearts of 91% of those vaccinated with it. Hope you are still getting boosters. Afterall you’re the smart one. You’re not being experimented on when liberals are in charge. If it gets up to 98% even I might consider the chance that it was a defective and dangerous product.
You being a genius, who is still demanding people wear masks that are as effective at blocking viruses as a chain link fence is at blocking mosquitoes near a swamp during summer at dusk, will likely gear up to demand family, friends anyone you can fascist into multiple boosters to get them.
A harmless common cold? My 71 year old mother caught the Wuhan flu and laughed it off.
Masks will save us all!! Cretin.
“Instead of mousetraps. what about baby traps? Not to harm the baby, but just to hold them until they can be removed.” Deep Thoughts with Jeff Handey
That’s so weird it’s funny. {)
Bill Gates is the spitting image of both Kermit the Frog and The Amazing Kreskin. This proves that Trump is Hitler. The Science says so. Case closed.
So just how much is this miserable little weasel stand to make sell his Snake Oil(Global Warming, Climate Change)just like Gore the Bore and Delirious DiCaprio. Gates and Microsoft making those stupid We See ads since he wants to chose a child’s future just like all UN/CFR/Globalists do
You and Gordon need to get a clue. Gates has donated more than $100 billion to charities with a commitment to donate $200,000,000,000 more over the next 20 years.
The “miserable little weasel” has done much more than you (and me) to advance our standard of living. Hmmm, I’m using one of his products right now . Ever use a Microsoft product?! Were you forced to?
As for Gates’ concern for the future, I wish both the Democrats and the Republicans showed concern for our children’s future by bringing down the deficit and addressing the unfunded liabilities of Medicare and Social Security. Here’s Trump’s plan for addressing those—> <—-
Aisha six inches up your ass,
“Gates has donated more than $100 billion to charities.”That’s an absolute lie. Name the charities and list the supposed donations, BITCH.
And Schumer’s shitdown can’t be blamed on the Rebublicans, you lowlife.
And EVERY loser lowlife who doesn’t contribute to society gets free Midicaid and every old fuck gets free Medicare, you lying left-wing fucktard.
Who pays for that shit? Not you or your fellow D-Bags. Our grandkids and great, great great grandkids are on the D-Bag hook.
Sorry you have an Ayrab instead of a real man or woman. Six inches is really small.
Best argument I’ve heard that Climate Change is false wen t something like this.
There are Hotels, Condominiums, Golf Courses, mansions and Resorts being built on the Florida coast. All these depend on loans from financial institutions. What bank would write a 20 or 30 year loan for billions of dollars on a resort that will be under water in 10 years?
I’m guessing those guys know something.
Are any homes on the Atlantic coast now falling into the ocean?!
Many insurers are learning the hard way that they underpriced coverage. We get clueless, whining economic illiterates now complaining insurance companies are dramatically increasing rates. If you think the rates are too high, start an insurance company, offer lower rates, and take away business from existing insurers.
We need go back no further than 2008 to see lenders made many loans they knew would end up in default. Why did they make those loans? Because they sold them to suckers. Those suckers and other lenders got bailed out by the American taxpayer.
Ask the homeowners in the Outer Banks whose houses have just been swallowed up by the ocean if there is any problem to worry about.
Caligula’s vacation home and a big part of the ancient Roman city of Capri could use a lower water line..are we including the Mediterranean. I take it you mean only currently.
The press sometimes reports fish swimming in Fla streets as global warming, but it turns out that is seasonal and is no higher now than it was 50-100 years ago.
I live about 20 miles from the southern part of the NC Outer Banks. Most of those houses falling into the ocean are in the area between Rodanthe and Buxton NC. This is a sliver of land that juts out into the Atlantic 20 or 30 miles from the mainland. It has always been unstable, and seems to be a hurricane magnet. Also most of those falling houses are older and built too close to the surf.
I don’t know what insurance rates are there but I expect they are very high with lots of exclusions, for instance, wind and hail insurance is excluded by insurance companies so the State of NC provides that insurance. Also flood insurance is extra at a whopping cost.
Still, I don’t think climate change, has much to do with it
Exactly which Outer Banks islands have disappeared, you left-wing liar?
I do not trust him or any of the other climate doom believers that have suddenly “seen the light.” The winds against climate change/armageddon are blowing fairly strong right now so of course people like Gates, who have no soul, will say what they think gets them the best response (especially for money). He is just another politician in that sense. When the left regains power, he and the rest will swing back.
So people who understand science know that climate change is real. Right, Daniel? There’s debate about how catastrophic the consequences might or might not be, but climate change is real. Right, Daniel? Right? Could you just plainly state it to avoid ambiguity and confusion? Or are you someone who does not believe in science? Huh? Daniel?
Scientist have always said that global warming is a hoax. Vast majority. There is absolutely no physical proof or working scientific model that backs any other conclusion than it’s hoax and communist fraud.
Best parallel is Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (Lamarckian Evolution)
Theory: Lamarck’s theory proposed that acquired characteristics during an organism’s lifetime could be passed down to its offspring.
Example: The classic example is that giraffes stretched their necks to reach leaves, and this acquired trait was then inherited by their young.
the Lamarckian-based system championed by Trofim Lysenko in the Soviet Union, which was a politically motivated campaign against genetics and was ultimately discredited, as Britannica explains.
Between the two, hands down, climate fraud/hoax is the most embarrassing, being wholly non-science based, with physics laws making it a ridiculous theory. Jean -Baptiste Lamarck was theorizing and had many unknowns about something very little was known.
On balance you have man -bear pig and lying, grift is second nature to the left.
I’m in agreement with Congressman Louie Gohmert, “I believe in climate change, it changes 4 times a year in East Texas.
Could you be any more full of shit, Dickporn? Global climate warming change is the worst hoax in human history. Next the ozone will bake us and the Bermuda Triangle will seize cruise ships.