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Bill Gates To Headline Paris Climate Talks

Posted by timothy on from the moins-de-diesel dept.

theodp writes: The NY Times and others report that Bill Gates will announce the creation of a multibillion-dollar clean energy fund on Monday at the opening of the two-week long Paris Climate Change Conference. The climate summit, which will be attended by President Obama and 100+ world leaders, is intended to forge a global accord to cut planet-warming emissions. The pending announcement was first reported by ClimateWire. A spokesman for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation did not respond to a request for comment. Let's hope it goes better than BillG school reform!

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  1. Oh Boy by PvtVoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    This story will generate rational discussion on Slashdot.

    1. Re: Oh Boy by mSparks43 · · Score: 2

      the fact they have lost the world populations attention singing the climate change hymn won't stop them getting together to drink $100k bottles of wine and patting themselves on the back at what a good job they are doing controlling us and getting more and more people to pay them taxes and otherwise submit to their control.

  2. Multimillion dollar fund? by ravenspear · · Score: 2

    I heard that $640 was enough for anyone.

  3. Re:Denied! by smittyoneeach · · Score: 2

    This will stop the buffoons in power *how*, exactly?

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    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  4. Re:Denied! by smittyoneeach · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yours is a rational argument. The drones pushing all of this (a) are not rational, and (b) will not be dissuaded in their termite-like quest to subjugate the global economy. (c) Because #Fairness.

    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  5. Re:Denied! by Eunuchswear · · Score: 4, Informative

    "The countries that have refused to sing/ratify"

    Who are they?

    The US (signed, but never ratified)
    Canada (ratified, then withdrew in 2011)
    Andorra
    South Sudan
    Palestine
    The Vatican.

    "collectively reduced their carbon emissions"

    Ok, I'll ignore the minnows (I assume I can ignore the CO2 emissions of Andorra).

    The idea is to reduce emissions from the 1990 base line, so how have the US and Canada done?

    Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in te United States increased by about 7% between 1990 and 2013.

    and. looking at the graph, emissions rose steadily to 2008 then fell quite a bit. Seems causing a major economic downturn is the way the US cuts its emissions, not fracking.

    And Canada? Same story, rose from 600 megatonnes C to 700, steady rise 'till 2008, sudden drop, then a slow rise since 2010-2011..

    "by more than those that did sign up".

    Well, no. The EU and Russia have reduced their emissions since 1990, Japan has very slightly increased them, but nothing like the emissions growth of the US or Canada.

    Looks like you need to do a little more reading.

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    Watch this Heartland Institute video
  6. Re:I hope his travel in France is powered by Diese by 0dugo0 · · Score: 2

    Right, just don't burn it all at once.

  7. Re:Denied! by Dog-Cow · · Score: 2

    The US (signed, but never ratified)
    Canada (ratified, then withdrew in 2011)
    Andorra
    South Sudan
    Palestine
    The Vatican.

    One of these is not a country.