Bill Gates: About Global Warming… Never Mind Gates breaks the political embargo on questioning the myth of climate apocalypse. by Daniel Greenfield
https://www.frontpagemag.com/bill-gates-about-global-warming-never-mind/
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
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